iron curtain

The Russians will win militarily. They will capture Kyiv. They will be able to remove Zelensky from power in Kyiv. But Ian Bremmer sees no circumstance under which Putin emerges from this crisis in anything but a dramatically worse position: politically inside Russia, economically, in terms of how Russia is doing, as well as geopolitically and Russia's position, particularly as it relates to European security. Putin would have been radically better off if he had never invaded Ukraine.