In the battle over Ukraine, propaganda and disinformation play a crucial role. Assertions that President Vladimir Putin is a master strategist who consistently outsmarts the West simply disguise a growing list of his international defeats.

In reality, Putin is an opportunist trained by the KGB to detect and exploit weaknesses in his opponents and camouflage his own vulnerabilities. It is precisely Russia’s defects and defeats that must be highlighted and exploited in order to hasten the demise of the current regime in the Kremlin.