With resources poured into the fight, allies watching, and propaganda framing it as a struggle against the West, President Vladimir Putin has locked Russia’s foreign policy into a war Moscow cannot afford to lose.
Hanna Notte directs the Eurasia Program at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies and is a Senior Associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). She lives in Berlin.
With resources poured into the fight, allies watching, and propaganda framing it as a struggle against the West, President Vladimir Putin has locked Russia’s foreign policy into a war Moscow cannot afford to lose.