With increasing signs of Putin’s Russia dragging its feet on the US proposed ceasefire one wonders if this is a case of brinkmanship or deliberate folly. Having rejected Trump’s proposed 30-day ceasefire and making a frankly unattainable counter-offer, Putin has now set in motion the biggest call-up yet of Russian conscripts (and I would not put too much store in his promise that they will not be sent to Ukraine).

While he’s still taking tough, things don’t look great on the military or economic fronts for Putin. On the battlefield the Russians have resorted to still more extreme cannon-fodder tactics with some thrusts being led, Mad Max style, in converted cars and trucks. Ukrainian attacks have struck airfields far into Russia destroying some very modern and expensive aircraft and air defence missile systems. Add to these the........

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