“As Russian forces fled in disarray in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region
Saturday — dressing as civilians, stealing bicycles, abandoning tons of
military equipment and ammunition — Putin sounded strikingly tone deaf
as he opened a giant new Ferris wheel in Moscow. ‘There is nothing like
that in Europe,’ he boasted via video-link.”
“Within hours, the Ferris wheel had broken down, and tickets had to
be refunded. Repairing what’s broken about Putin’s war strategy and, by
extension, his presidency and reputation, will be far harder.”
