If Moscow thinks it could somehow “install a pro-Russian leader in Kyiv,” Putin’s even further down the rabbit-hole than assumed. gov.uk/government/new…
The notion that the Kremlin could somehow(?) successfully install a “pro-Russian leader” in Ukraine reminds me of Yanukovych’s dreams he could return and somehow “reunite the country”: 
Would be a good time to revisit Putin’s recent jeremiad that Russians and Ukrainians are “one people—a single whole”: en.kremlin.ru/events/preside…
Truly remarkable what a strategic failure Moscow’s Ukraine policy has been—especially the past eight years.
That the military option is the only card remaining (for *Ukraine*!) is just… wild. What an abject failure.
That the military option is the only card remaining (for *Ukraine*!) is just… wild. What an abject failure.
Two distinct options regarding the (on its face ridiculous) regime change plan flagged yesterday:
1. This was floated amongst other competing claims to strategy (think previous “adhocratic” approaches Moscow’s used elsewhere).
1. This was floated amongst other competing claims to strategy (think previous “adhocratic” approaches Moscow’s used elsewhere).
https://twitter.com/KofmanMichael/status/1485364939342680065
2. The Kremlin’s designs are even more grandiose than assumed—and its assumptions about Ukraine are somehow even more blinkered than we thought.
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