Thought this was a good insight into the mentality at the heart of the Russian fascist dictatorship, particularly the belief that they can outlast the West's support for Ukraine.
To what extent this changes as the war starts to impact more and more on those closer to Putin, we will see.
How this plays out is at least as important, maybe even more so, than the events on the battlefield, I think.
The Russian president has managed to rally people around the flag with talk of a fight for national survival
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