Putin's Dangerous Gamble

How Russia has triggered the return of existential dread

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/02/24/russia-has-triggered-return-existential-dread/

Greater Russia is now a full-spectrum commodity superpower, less vulnerable to sanctions than Europe itself
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2022/02/24/greater-russia-now-full-spectrum-commodity-superpower-less-vulnerable/

Russians Now See a New Side to Putin: Dragging Them into War
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/24/world/europe/putin-russia-ukraine.html 

Why Vladimir Putin has chosen to invade Ukraine now
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/02/24/vladimir-putin-has-chosen-invade-ukraine-now/
 
Is Putin’s gamble on Ukraine rational?
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2022/2/24/is-putins-gamble-on-ukraine-rational