The Big Picture
Vincent Boland: Putin is having a fantastic 2024, it can’t continue
Tide has turned in Russia’s favour on second anniversary of Ukraine invasion, Europe must now respond to help Ukraine prevail
Vladimir Putin is having a fantastic 2024. Two years after he launched his full-scale invasion of Ukraine, there are many reasons – economic, military, political, foreign and domestic – for Russia’s president to whistle on his way to work.
On the economic front, Putin has placed Russia on a war footing to produce military hardware, and it is working. Despite boycotts and sanctions, Russia has reaped over €600 billion from exports of oil and gas ...
