“War has lengthy since turn out to be the essential tenor of immediately’s Russia. In the president’s thoughts, as his speech makes clear, issues can keep that means. In this world view there is no such thing as a want for a unprecedented nationwide effort to finish the warfare as shortly as attainable. … Putin promised new jobs, higher training and alternatives for development. Fittingly, he referred to as on the nation’s super-rich to take a position domestically. … In Putin’s dreamworld this new normality is feasible even with no victory in Ukraine, which is clearly turning into unattainable.”