The old, proven way -- will mobilization save Putin?

Vladimir Putin's never-long, seven-minute message to the Russian people delivered on the morning of September 21, despite not importantly altering the Russian president's narrative, should affect our position on the situation across the east border. The most conflicting emotions are the issues of partial mobilization, “referendums” on the accession of puppet republics to Russia and breaking the atomic taboo. All these issues, although thematically somewhat distant...