WaPo: Putin, czar with no empire, needs military victory for his own survival
February 20, 2023 at 02:22 AM EST
Putin, czar with no empire, needs military victory for his own survival By Robyn Dixon and Catherine Belton, WashingtonPost MOSCOW — President Vladimir Putin likes to portray himself as a new czar like Peter the Great or Ivan III, the 15th-century grand prince known as the “gatherer of the Russian lands.” But Putin’s year-long war in […] Source