The Kremlin is projecting the narrative of a powerful Russia and a powerful Putin to conceal the real weaknesses and limitations of Russia's capabilities and distract from Russia's battlefield failures.

Russia has distorted key concepts in Western discourse on this war, redefining any effort to 'resist Russian aggression' as escalation. More in my @thestudyofwar.bsky.social essay from earlier this year understandingwar.org/backgrounder...