Moscow Allows Then Kills Article Suggesting Russians Win at Home When They Lose Wars

(Paul Globe – The Jamestown Foundation) Russian President Vladimir Putin will claim any outcome he gets in Ukraine is a victory. He is not going to achieve his stated goals, and the Kremlin is trying to figure out how to present something less than a triumph as exactly that.
The Kremlin allowed an article to appear on May 24 in a major Moscow newspaper suggesting that military triumphs are overrated and that Russia has often benefited when it has suffered what others have described as a defeat. This proposition and its implications are so fraught with dangers for Putin that it was taken down from the paper’s website four days later and is becoming part of the discussion among Russian elites. – Moscow Allows Then Kills Article Suggesting Russians Win at Home When They Lose Wars – Jamestown