Putin’s Potemkin Red Square

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Kyiv Post

Vladimir Putin moved through Red Square with the visible caution of a man who knows he no longer stands at a helm of the state the world fears, but instead leads an exhausted system struggling to survive its own lies. The man who went to war convinced he would crush Ukraine in a few days now appears as a tired and paranoid old man trying to maintain the illusion of grandeur.