Geopolitics
The Kremlin's Death Spiral: How Putin's Failed War Fuels European Sabotage
Russia, facing military exhaustion and strategic failure in Ukraine, is escalating hybrid warfare and sabotage across Europe to create a pretext for wider conflict or to justify mobilization, driven by Vladimir Putin's fear of his hardline inner circle should he fail to capture Ukraine's Donbas region. This desperate, self-inflicted crisis reveals the bankruptcy of a revanchist imperial project that threatens global stability and exposes the West's chronic inability to deter a rogue state fueled by its own toxic nationalism.
