Catherine Belton, Washington Post: Putin thinks West will blink first in war of attrition, Russian elites say
Russian President Vladimir Putin is digging in for a long war of attrition over Ukraine and will be relentless in trying to use economic weapons, such as a blockade of Ukrainian grain exports, to whittle away Western support for Kyiv, according to members of Russia’s economic elite.
The Kremlin has seized on recent signs of hesitancy by some European governments as an indication the West could lose focus in seeking to counter Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, especially as global energy costs surge following the imposition of sanctions on Moscow.
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WNU Editor: It will depend on what the military situation on the ground in Ukraine will be like in the coming months, and how the Western economies will be responding.