Mark Galeotti

Along with three additional secret codicils shared only with certain partners, the plan has five main points

What is the strategic value in Moscow’s seemingly petty and spiteful acts?

What is Kyiv’s goal?

It is possible to change Putin’s risk calculus, but it probably requires more imagination and viciousness than our diplomacy tends to embody

Any campaign of Western-backed assassination would likely trigger not some democratic revolution but an explosion of anger and outrage