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Fṛm Đ Obzrvr: Putin has become a global bogeyman. Russians must exorcise this ghoul

Russian president Vladimir Putin, right, and Chinese president Xi Jinping toast during a dinner in March at the Kremlin. Photograph: Pavel Byrkin/AP
Ruśn prezidnt Vladīmir Pūtin, rît, n Ćînīz prezidnt ĆI Jinpñ tost jrñ a dinr in Marć at ɖ Cremlin. Foṭgraf: Pavel Byrkin/AP

Pūtin hz bcm a globl bǒgiman. Ruśnz mst xorsîz ɖs gūl

Transcription of an Observer article of 23 July 2023

Acrst, ostṛsîzd bt hīdlis v ɖ miẓri h cōzz, ɖs akzd wor criminl z dragñ hiz ppl intu a moṛl abis

Simon Tisdall
Sîmn Tizdl

Súnde, 23 Jlî 2023

Evrwn wonts a pìs v Ruśn prezidnt Vladīmir Pūtin. Vira Ćernŭca, dfaynt amd ɖ ruinz v hr vilij in norʈīst Ycren, crsz him ć mornñ. Ś wonts t si him spinñ in hiz cofin, tormntd, unśrivn n dámd fr ol itrṇti. Ćernŭca mt b sd t spīc fr hr neśn f nt ɖ intîr wstn wrld.

Ɖ Inṭnaśnl Criminlcort (ICC) wonts t arest Pūtin fr worcrîmz, alejñ mas ćîld abdux́nz. Ḿtiṇs Wagner mrṣnriz brīfli wontd t topl hiz reźīm – n grevli wìcnd him. Hrǒic opziśn līdr Alexe Nvalni jst wonts him t śut p. H’z bn forst t lisn t ɖ sem Pūtin spīć in jel ć de fr mor ɖn 100 dez.

Nirli 18 munʈs intu hiz inveźn v Ycren, a ctastṛfi hol̦i v hiz mcñ, ɖ mć-loɖd, riḍkld, ostṛsîzd n acrst Pūtin, hol̦i indifṛnt t ɖ miẓri h cōzz, hz bcm, in difṛnt wez, ɖ wrld’z most wontd man – n poṣbli its most denjṛs tù.

Pūtin imbodiz Ruśa’z inṭnaśnl îṣleśn n growñ spirićl degṛdeśn. Lîc a dìmn, hobgoblin or Crācn v enćnt foclor, h’z meṭmorfozd intu globl bǒgiman or buġbu – a monstṛs, nîtmẹriś figr psoṇfayñ īvl. Pūtinizm z a graf ćartñ ɖ arc v modn mraḷti. Ɖ ziro on ɖ scel z him.

A wst-sntric xaɉreśn? Phps. Mor Ruśnz s’pozidli apruv v Pūtin ɖn d’nt, jst az ɖer dludd fōrberz adord Stalin ẃl h mrdrd miłnz. Mni amñ Doṇld Trump’s Maga mob aplōd him. N ɖ Cremlin clemz Pūtin rsivd an “astǎndñ” rocstar welcm in Daġstān aftr ɖ Wagner scer.

Big dīl. N fec nyz enwe.

Īvn bfr Ycren, fy arnd ɖ wrld mć lîct or trustd ɖs smrcñ, snīci-lcñ x-CGB ʈug. Rspctd him az Ruśa’z līdr? Śr. Toḷretd or fird him, yes. Bt admîrd him prsṇli? No. Frendlis, paṛnôd Pūtin z t c’rizma ẃt a slug z t leṭs. N nǎ, h’z Ruśa’z hyj, hazmat lạbiḷti.

Ʈri probḷmatic preẓdnśl trips abrōd ɖs yir draṃtîz ɖ lonlinis v ɖ loñ-distns tîṛnt. Ɖ frst, t mīt felo Brics līdrz in Sǎʈ Africa nxt munʈ, wz abrupli cansld last wīc in a vri public hymilieśn.

Pūtin wz disinvîtd bcz, az a stetparti t ɖ ICC, Sǎʈ Africa z līġli oblîjd t infors ɖ cort’s arestwoṛnt. Ɖ Cremlin hd wontd t g ahd, insistñ h hd dipḷmatic iḿṇti. Bt Carim Cān, ɖ ICC’z ćīf proṣktr, sd inṭnaśnl lw mst hv presidns.

Pūtin wns travld ɖ wrld lîc eni uɖr naśnl līdr. Bt ɖt wz bfr Litṿńenco’z mrdr. It’s bn dǎnhil evr sins

Siril Ramaphosa, Sǎʈ Africa’z prezidnt, wz còt on a hc v hiz ǒn mcñ. “Ńtṛl” Sǎʈ Africa rfyzz t cndem Pūtin’z inveźn. Yt it’s akzd v smuglñ wepnz t Ruśa. Oponnts se ɖ rūlñ parti’z vy z skwrd bî caś-dneśnz fṛm Cremlin-linct oḷgarcs. Ɖ guvnmnt fest līgl ax́n t fors it t obe ɖ ICC.

So Ramaphosa cevd, telñ Pūtin t ste hom. Arestñ him wd b “a decḷreśn v wor”, h clemd. Pifl. It wd hv bn a rzǎndñ decḷreśn v lw. Ramaphosa míst hiz ples in hisṭri.

Pūtin’z prsnl pôznclǎd cd tent Trci, tù, f a vizit t Anc̣ra gz ahd nxt munʈ. Trci z a membr v Nato, wɖ ẃć Pūtin dīmz Ruśa t b at wor. Yt its prezidnt, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, apirz mor inṭrestd in ćīp Ruśn gas ɖn nośnz v wstn yṇti n soḷdaṛti wɖ Cyīv.

Erdoğan portrez himslf az a pīs-mcr, ẃć z hǎ h jusṭfîz Pūtin’z invteśn. Bt Ruśa’z imoṛl recñ last wīc v ɖ YN-bact Blac Sī gren-xport dīl ɖt Trci hlpt ngośiet līvz him lcñ lîc a ysfl idịt. Prṗsḟli or nt, Erdoğan z “norṃlîzñ” Pūtin – bî gvñ him a ćans t ple ɖ stetsmn, sîdlîn Cyīv n dvîd Nato.

Pūtin wns travld ɖ wrld lîc eni uɖr naśnl līdr. H met Jorj W Bś at ɖ Ẃît Hǎs, turd Yṛp n injoid a stetvizit t ɖ YC in 2003. Bt ol ɖt wz bfr Aḷxandr Litṿńenco’z mrdr in Lundn in 2006, ńmṛs adiśnl asaṣneśnz v Pūtin critics at hom n abrōd, n ɖ 2008 inveźn v Jorja. It’s bn dǎnhil evr sins.

Az hiz spectṛl bǒgiman imij grù, so Pūtin’z inṭnaśnl axpṭbiḷti śranc. Sins Febrri last yir, onli Iran, Beḷrūs n sm formr Sovịt rpublics (plus adorñ Daġstān) hv bn onrd bî hiz prezns. H brīfli travld t okpaid Ycren in Epril – bt ɖt wz stricli nt bî invteśn.

Pūtin’z bêlfl prezns z stl flt in a rogz’ gaḷri v bnîtd cuntriz. Ɖ Sirịn reźīm v felo worcriminl Baśar al-Asad z a prîm xampl. Last wīc’s YY sumit wɖ Latin Americn cuntriz wz olmst rect bî Nic̣rağa, Kba n Veṇzwela’z rluctns t snśr Pūtin. Telñli, Norʈ C’rīa’z Cim Jong-un, ɖ ultiṃt ǎtcast, ʈncs ɖ wrld v him.

Yt hǎ mć longr wl Ruśnz toḷret ɖs wicid, incompitnt, ostṛsîzd man hu cōzz ɖm sć dredfl repyteśnl, ic̣nomic n hymn harm? Ɖ Wagner rbełn spouc t a dīpr mleiz v ɖ Ruśn soul. Hǎ lo mst ɖe ol snc, ẃt depʈs mst ɖe plúm, in ordr ɖt Pūtin cn avôd dfit n oblivịn?

Ɖz r qsćnz Ćîna’z prezidnt, Ći Jinpñ, wl śrli asc himslf az h priperz t grīt Pūtin in Bêźñ in Octobr. It’s poṣbl Ći olrdi rgrets ɖ “no-limits” partnrśp agrìd prīYcren. Ćîna hz sins run intu big probḷmz v its ǒn, prîmṛli a slumpñ icoṇmi. Ɖ deṃliśn v ɖ Pūtin stroñman-miʈ hz unsetld Bêźñ.

Ɖ last ʈñ Ći wonts rît nǎ z a nīdi globl p’raia nocñ at hiz dor, sīcñ ri’śuṛns, armz n asistns. Phps, unlîc so mni uɖrz, Ći dz’nt wont a pìs v Pūtin. Phps, on ɖ contrri, h wonts rid v him – n wd welcm a les denjṛs, mor pridictbl rplesmnt.

Wl Ći d evrwn a fevr n hlp Ruśnz xorsîz ɖ bǒgiman? It’s an intrigñ, hopfl ʈt.

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"House by the Railroad," Edward Hopper, 1925

In Ñspel: The Guardian view on Ukraine’s suffering: mourning the lives unlived

The aftermath of a rocket strike in downtown Kramatorsk, in which at least 10 people were killed. Photograph: State Emergency Service Handout/EPA
Ɖ afṭmaʈ v a rocitstrîc in dǎntǎn Cramatorsc, in ẃć at līst 10 ppl wr cild. Foṭgraf: Stet Imrjnsisrvis Handǎt/YPE

Ɖ Gardịn vy on Ycren’z suḟrñ: mōrnñ ɖ lîvz unlivd

Transcription of a Guardian editorial of 28 June 2023

Mor ɖn 550 ćildṛn hv daid sins Ruśa invedd last yir, includñ in Tyzde’z atac on Cramatorsc

Wnzde, 28 Jūn 2023

Lît Ppćl, Fransis Spuḟd’z 2021 novl, bginz wɖ a V-2 atac upn a dpartmntstor in Lundn – inspîrd bî ɖ riyl-lîf bomñ v a Wŭlwrʈs in 1944. Fîv yuñ lîvz r dstroid in an instnt, ẃć ɖ oʈr dscrîbz in a fy śort pejz: w hv sìn onli ɖ brīfist glims v spindli-nìd Alic n twinz Jo n Val bfr ɖer deʈs.

“Ẃt hz gn z nt jst ɖ ćildṛn’z preznt xistns,” h obzrvz. “It’s ol ɖ fyćrz ɖe w’nt gt, tù. Ol ɖ wd-bi’z, mt-bi’z, cd-bi’z v ɖ decedz t cm. Hǎ cn ɖt los b meźrd …?” Spuḟd atmts ɖt gretr rec̣nñ bî raitñ ɖ lîvz ɖe mt hv livd: in mni rgardz inconṣqnśl, fl v hops n dis’pôntmnts n fełrz, peti scūlcruwltiz, luv, doji dīlñz, vayḷns n mntl ilnis – yt inheṛntli vałbl. Ẃt mt hv sīmd a litrri cnsit rmîndz s, devstetñli, ẃt z lost ẃn a lîf z cut śort.

Mor ɖn 550 ćildṛn hv daid sins Ruśa lōnćt its fl-scel inveźn v Ycren in Febrri last yir: mor ɖn wn a de. Hundṛdz mor hv bn injrd. Mōrnñ ɖ ded, ɖ cuntri’z prezidnt, Vlodimir Zelensci, hz ritn nt onli v ɖ dstrux́n, bt v ẃt mt hv bn: “Mni v ɖm cd hv bcm feṃs scolrz, artists, sportsćampịnz, cntribytñ t Ycren’z hisṭri.”

On Tyzde, mor nemz wr add t ɖ hoṛfayñ tali, wɖ ɖ atac on a pītṣresṭront in a bizi śopñ eria in ɖ īstn siti v Cramatorsc, in Donetsc. For v ɖ 10 cnfrmd deʈs wr ćildṛn; at līst 56 ppl wr injrd, sm criticli. In Ycren, Ruśn forsz hv nt onli śoun a ruʈlis disrigard fr siviłnz, bt frīqntli apir t hv tarġtd ɖm – az ɖe hv in uɖr worz. Ɖ YN secṛtri jenṛl’z lêtist rport on ćildṛn n armd conflict nemz Ruśa amñ ɖ wrst vayletrz v rîts. Ɖ inṭnaśnl criminlcort hz iśùd arest woṛnts fr Vladīmir Pūtin n hiz ćildṛn’z-rîts cmiśnr ovr ɖ forst dīporteśn v Ycreńn ćildṛn t Ruśa, ẃr mni hv bn adoptd.

Ẃn ćildṛn r cild, ɖ sns v smʈñ biyñ stoḷn z ptiklrli visṛl n cmpelñ. Yt so mć hz bn lost in Ycren, īvn az mni awe fṛm ɖ fruntlîn trî t liv smẃt az ɖe dd bfr ɖ wor, n az Ycreńn culćr hz fluriśt in dfayns v Ruśn agreśn. A wrld v posbiḷtiz hz dis’pird: probḷmz r unrisrćt, maćz unpleid, partiz unhostd, gardnz untndd; fiś wl nt spōn in p’lūtd rivrz, bizṇsz wl nt b istabliśt, bebiz nvr cnsivd az cuplz r seṗretd.

Fluṛśñ lîvz hv bn struc dǎn or stuntd, n ɖoz olrdi struġlñ hv lost ftholdz ẃć mt hv sìn ɖm on t śurr grǎnd – an esṭmetd wn in for Ycreńnz r at risc v svir mntl-hlʈ cndiśnz bcz v ɖ conflict, acordñ t ɖ Wrld Hlʈ Orġnîześn. Sm v ɖz losz wl b flt elsẃr. Farmland strùn wɖ mainz lîz untild: ɖ crops ɖt wd hv bn groun mt hv sstend faṃliz far awe.

Ɖ cost v rīcnstrux́n hz olrdi bn esṭmetd at $411bn. Ẃnvr ɖs wor cmz t an end, Ycren wl nīd s’port fr yirz t cm. Bt it z imposbl t calklet ẃt z lost ẃn tnz v miłnz r undr asōlt, n so mni mst b mōrnd. Hǎ dz wn acǎnt fr ẃt cd hv bn?

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"House by the Railroad," Edward Hopper, 1925

In Ñspel: The Guardian view on Prigozhin’s mutiny: Putin’s problems aren’t over

‘Yevgeny Prigozhin attacked not only the execution of the war in Ukraine but its very rationale.’ Prigozhin in Bakhmut, Ukraine, 25 May 2023. Photograph: Press service of Prigozhin/UPI/Shutterstock
‘Yevgeni Prigoźin atact nt onli ɖ x’kśn v ɖ wor in Ycren bt its vri raṣ́nal.’ Prigoźin in Baħmŭt, Ycren, 25 Me 2023. Foṭgraf: Preșrvis v Prigoźin/YPI/Śuṭstoc

Ɖ Gardịn vy on Prigoźin’z ḿṭni: Pūtin’z probḷmz r’nt ovr

Transcription of a Guardian editorial of 25 June 2023

Ɖ Vāgnr grūp ćīf’s rbełn swiftli cem t a hōlt, bt ɖ consiqnsz wl rvrḅret in Ruśa n bynd

Súnde, 25 Jūn 2023

Yevgeni Prigoźin cōld of hiz marć on Mosco on Saṭde evri bit az abrupli az h hd bgun hiz rbełn ɖ prīvịs de. Bt ɖ Vāgnr grūp’s armd ḿṭni, hvr śort-livd, hz dminiśt Vladīmir Pūtin in ɖ îz v bʈ ɖ ilīt n ordnri Ruśnz. Ɖ mrṣnriz hd tecn ovr ɖ Ruśn suɖn militri cmand in Rostof-on-Don, a l’jisticl hub fr ɖ Ycren inveźn, bfr rêsñ twdz ɖ capitl. Mr Pūtin wz forst t worn v “a dedli ʈret t ǎr stet” n Mosco’z mẹr rjd rezidnts t ste at hom.

Ẃl Mr Prigoźin’z uprîzñ lcs lîc a despṛt act t stop hiz prîṿt armi biyñ incorṗretd intu reğlr forsz, sm wundr f brōdr intṛilīt conflict lîz in ɖ bacgrǎnd. Ɖ Vāgnr ćīf hd bcm incrisñli brezn in hiz atacs on ɖ dfnsministr, Serge Śôgu, n cmandr in ćīf, Valeri Gerasimof. Iniṣ́li ɖr wr sjsćnz ɖt h mt b actñ wɖ ɖ apruvl v ɖ Cremlin. Bt on Frîde, Mr Prigoźin atact nt onli ɖ x’kśn v ɖ wor bt its vri raṣ́nal, bfr clemñ ɖt Ruśn forsz hd cild scorz v hiz men in a rocit’tac n dmandñ rvnj on ɖ “īvl” militri līdrśp. A de lêtr – aftr Mr Pūtin akzd him v trīzn – h ćalinjd hiz mastr ǎtrît fr ɖ frst tîm.

Mr Prigoźin’z hybris wz olrdi astǎndñ. Hiz unlîcli rîz sw him ivolv fṛm peti ʈug t a ʈug on a grand scel, via a hotdog stand n militri ceṭrñcontracts. Vāgnr, a netwrc v cumṗniz, z b’livd t hv snt mrṣnriz t abt 30 cuntriz. Mr Prigoźin set p trolfacṭriz, tù, n wz indîtd in ɖ YS ovr inṭfiṛns in ɖ 2016 YS ilex́n. Vāgnr wz jujd t alǎ Ruśa “plōzibl dnạbiḷti”, n its fǎndr himslf dsclemd ɖ grūp, suwñ mīdia hu hd alejd cnx́nz bfr acnoḷjñ hiz rǒl last Sptmbr.

Hiz clem ɖt h std dǎn hiz men t privnt bludśed rezd îbrǎz, gvn ɖ atroṣtiz v ẃć Vāgnr forsz hv bn akzd in Ycren, Siria, Sntṛl Africn Rpublic n uɖr neśnz. H prizyṃbli riylîzd ɖt h cd nt amas inuf s’port. Bt h hz nt bn puniśt – yt – n wz sd t b gwñ t Beḷrūs, s’pozidli folowñ ɖ mīdieśn v its līdr, Alexander Lŭcaśenco. Ɖ fîtrz hu s’portd ɖ uprîzñ wl rportidli b fgivn; uɖrz sbsymd intu ɖ reğlr militri, az pland. Ɖ disintgreśn v Vāgnr forsz cd b hlpfl t Ycren’z cǎnṭ’fnsiv, az cd ɖ Ruśn līdrśp’s dstrax́n. Mor criticl me b ɖs episod’z impact on ɖ mrāl v Ruśn trūps n rleśnz amñ its rūlñ clīc. Ɖ dīl, n Mr Prigoźin’z svîvl, simḅlîz Mr Pūtin’z wìcnis.

On Saṭde, ɖ Ruśn līdr drù paṛlélz wɖ wortîm ivnts in 1917 ɖt léd t “dstrux́n v ɖ armi n ɖ stet”. Uɖrz sáitd 1991: Miħaīl Grbaćof sw of a cù, bt nɖr h nr ɖ Sovịt Yńn lastd ɖ yir. Fy asym ɖ sem fet fr Mr Pūtin. Bt hiz grip on hiz cuntri hz nvr fest gretr ʈret. In ɖ last 18 munʈs h hz bn dlt tū gret bloz intîrli v hiz ǒn crieśn: hiz feld atmt t tec Cyīv n brñ Ycren t hìl, n nǎ ɖ rbełn bî hiz ǒn proṭźe, wɖ forsz h inebld. Ɖ unsrtnti n hymilieśn me mc him mor denjṛs. Ẃl Mr Prigoźin’z uprîzñ apirz t b ovr, its consiqnsz r onli startñ t unfold.

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"House by the Railroad," Edward Hopper, 1925

In Ñspel: The Guardian view on Vladimir Putin’s war: terror without purpose

‘Mr Putin’s war is sustained by his monstrous pride.’ Photograph: Mikhail Klimentyev/AP
‘Mr Pūtin’z wor z sstend by hiz monstṛs prîd.’ Foṭgraf: Miħail Climentiev/AP

Ɖ Gardịn vy on Vladīmir Pūtin’z wor: terr wɖt prṗs

(Transcription of a Guardian editorial of 31 May 2023)

Ɖ fog v wor z ʈic in Ycren, bt srtn stṛtījic n moṛl truɖz rmen cristl-clir

Wnzde, 31 Me 2023

Vladīmir Pūtin hz nvr bn onist wɖ ɖ Ruśn ppl abt ɖ wor in Ycren. H laid abt ɖ scel v ɖ inveźn n ɖ rīznz fr it. Ɖ dspśn z sstend wɖ propganda n rpreśn. Ǎtlw̃ ɖ truʈ hz cept ɖ riaḷti v wor mostli ǎt v sît, ẃć z a cndiśn v public aqiesns.

Ɖt dz’nt mīn ɖt miłnz wd rîz p agnst ɖer guvnmnt f cnfruntd wɖ ɖ tru horr v ẃt z biyñ dn t Ycren in ɖer nem. Ɖ beḷcos cult z wel imbedd in Ruśn ssayti. Bt it z īzịr t s’port a wor ɖt unfoldz on teḷviźn ɖn wn ɖt cn b hŕd flayñ oṿhed, ẃć z ẃ dronstrîcs agnst targits in Mosco ɖs wīc hv ratld ɖ Cremlin.

Ycren dnîz involvmnt in ɖ atac, az it dz ōṭmaticli ẃn militri oṗreśnz cros Ruśa’z bordrz, in defṛns t Cyīv’z wstn alîz hu r md uncumftbl bî sć bold incŕśnz. Ɖr wr olso rports on Wnzde v a fîr at an ôl rfîṇri in ɖ suɖn Ruśn Crasnodar rījn, startd bî a dron. Ɖ rêd on Mosco cōzd litl damij bt plenti v alarm, ẃć z ɖ pônt. Gtñ ɖ wor wɖn viẓbl renj v ordnri Ruśnz z imbaṛsñ fr Mr Pūtin. It unḍmainz hiz ōra v cntrol. It z hardr t pritnd ʈñz dd’nt hapn ẃn ppl cn si ɖm fṛm ɖer windoz.

Most aṇlists intrprit ɖz atacs az part v a disorịnteśnstraṭji, forsñ ɖ Cremlin t dvrt rzorsz n atnśn awe fṛm ɖ fruntlîn in advans v a Ycreńn cǎnṭ’fnsiv t rīcapćr okpaid teritri. Ɖ sem aplîz t ɖ mrcịr biznis v rêdz acrs ɖ Ycreńn bordr intu Ruśa’z Belgorod rījn, carid ǎt bî far-rît, anti-Pūtin Ruśn mliśaz. Ɖ fog v wor z dns, wɖ Ycreńn straṭjists cultvetñ unsrtnti t unsetl Ruśn dfnsz n Ruśn lînz v cmand, tangld amd fax̣́nl bic̣rñ in Mosco n btwn rîvl cmandrz on ɖ grǎnd.

Ɖt mcs it ol ɖ mor importnt t cīp a foc̣s on cor facts n moṛl impeṛtivz: Ycren z ɖ victim v an unpṛvoct inveźn bî forsz huz prîṃri tactic z terrîzñ ɖ sviłn popyleśn intu sbmiśn bî mīnz v indiscrimiṇt mrdr n dstrux́n. Ɖs campen v atroṣti hz nt s’xidd, bcz Ycreńnz hv śoun hrǒic forttyd n inɉnywti on an epic scel. Olso, ɖe hv bn armd fr ɖt indevr bî wstn guvnmnts, ẃć hd t baḷns fir v esc̣leśn wɖ a rịlistic aprezl v ɖ caṛctr v Mr Pūtin’z reźīm, n ɖ ʈret h pozd t Yṛpiyn pīs f unćect.

Ruśa dd nt start its teṛtorịl agreśn agnst Ycren in 2022, bt et yirz rlịr, in Crîmīa. Mr Pūtin dd nt stop ɖr bcz Ruśa wontd t hv cmplit dominns ovr ɖ dmestic n foṛn poḷsi orịnteśn v ɖ guvnmnt in Cyīv. H gambld ɖt ɖ wst wd lc awe agn. Ʈancḟli, ɖ Ruśn prezidnt wz mstecn. H ʈt ɖen ɖt Ruśa’z aṗtît fr carnij, īvn fṛm a luzñ pziśn, wd ǎtlast wstn soḷdaṛti wɖ Ycren. Ɖt tù trnz ǎt t b a mscalkleśn, so far.

Wɖt a folo-up straṭji, Mr Pūtin’z wor z sstend bî hiz monstṛs prîd, redinis t sacṛfîs conscriptsoljrz fr no meźṛbl prṗs n a p’liticl aṗreṭs ɖt alǎz him t cuvr p hiz fełrz. Ɖoz cndiśnz mc Ruśa’z pziśn lc solid. Bt ɖe cd trn ǎt t b britl, az loñ az Ycren’z alîz stand frm.

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"House by the Railroad," Edward Hopper, 1925

Frank Poems: UNFORTUNATELY

In times of military tension
Call twelve random ordinary people
From each side
In off the street
And ask them if
They’d prefer war or peace,

Pointing out first in brief –
Because, after all,
Random ordinary people
Have non-random, not-so-ordinary
Lives to lead
And won’t be paid for this –

Pointing out the pros and cons
Of peace and war,
Especially regarding
Ordinary not-so-ordinary people
And in particular
The poor.

Then take a vote…

Ladies and Gentlemen,
The votes cast in today’s ballot
In respect of peace and war
Were as follows:

For Peace: 24
And none for War.

I therefore hereby declare
The winner is Peace
And certainly not War.

PS:
Unfortunately,
When it comes to war and peace
In times of military tension,
It hardly ever tends
To end like this.

The Guardian, 8 February 2022: "Putin’s massive table: powerplay or paranoia?" Photograph: EyePress News/Rex/Shutterstock.

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‘It is hard to measure the public mood in a quasi-totalitarian regime, but the evidence points to war fatigue.’ Photograph: Mikhail Metzel/Kremlin Pool/Sputnik/EPA
‘It z hard t meźr ɖ public mūd in a qāzi-ttaḷterịn reźīm, bt ɖ evidns pônts t wor ftīg.’ Foṭgraf: Micaīl Metsél/Cremlin Pūl/Spŭtnic/YPE

Ɖ Gardịn vy on Ruśn dsnt: a sīd t b nrćrd

(Transcription of a Guardian editorial of 5 Dec. 2022)

Vḷdīmir Pūtin’z militri fełr in Ycren cn olso mc him vulnṛbl t p’liticl opziśn at hom

Munde 5 Dsmbr 2022

Vḷdīmir Pūtin’z fełr t cmplit hiz iniśl wor emz in Ycren z so cmplit, it z unclir t ẃt end Ruśa fîts on, xpt t pṛtct ɖ prezidnt fṛm ɖ hymilieśn v admitñ dfit. Sins ɖ Cremlin’z teṛtorịl ambiśnz hv bn ćect, Ruśa’z ofnsiv cepbiḷtiz hv bn d’rectd mor at terrîzñ sviłnz n dgredñ Ycreńn infṛstrucćr. Ɖ plan z t plunj ɖ cuntri intu frizñ darcnis ʈru ɖ wintr in ɖ hop v dplitñ ɖ wil t rzist.

Ɖr z no sîn v ɖt wrcñ. Mr Pūtin’z fełr t unḍstand ɖ rziłnt caṛctr v Ycren az a prǎdli indipndnt neśn wz ɖ fǎndeśnl err v hiz wor. Ɖ Ruśn prezidnt hz olso mscalkletd ẃn meẓ́rñ hiz ǒn ppl’z aṗtît fr wor. It lct vreśs in ɖ oṗnñ wīcs, ẃn stet propganḍćanlz hd litl dificlti ẃipñ p a beḷcos frvr. Ɖt ardr sbsîdd in ɖ militri qogmîr n hz drend awe sins mas cnscripśn wz intṛdyst in Sptmbr. Ɖt z nt t se masz v sitiznz r trnñ sdiśs. Dsnt z ḿtd bî fir n ɖ habit v alījns t ɖ flag at tîmz v crîsis.

Bt hundṛdz v ʈǎzndz hv olso fled ɖ draft, probbli mor ɖn ɖ numbr s’xesḟli rcrutd (xact figrz r śrǎdd in ofiśl sīcṛsi). Mni v ɖoz hu rport fr dyti hv bn apōld bî ɖ lac v iqipmnt, trenñ or prṗs fr ɖer dplômnt. Ɖoz hu si ɖmslvz az cánnfodr mc unmoṭvetd soljrz. Dsperñ vidioz l’mntñ ɖer plît srklet wîdli onlîn. An iqivḷnt disorịnteśn cmz acrs fṛm ofiśl ćanlz, bt xprest az incrisñli unhinjd dmandz fr ɖ anạleśn v Ycren, tinjd wɖ cntmt fr militri līdrz hu apir unebl t dlivr it. Mr Pūtin himslf z stl abv criṭsizm, bt ɖ miʈ v hiz streñʈ n s’pirịr jujmnt hz bn śecn.

It z hard t meźr ɖ public mūd in a qāzi-ttaḷterịn reźīm, bt ɖ evidns pônts t wor ftīg. A līct prîṿt poul cnductd fr a Ruśn stet-s’kṛti ejnsi last wīc śoud 25% v rspondnts wontñ ɖ militri campen t cntiny n 55% wontñ pīstōcs. In Febrri, Mr Pūtin’z inveźn cmandd abt 80% s’port. Ɖr z olso evidns ɖt ɖ Cremlin z luzñ fl-spectṛm dominns v ɖ inḟmeśnspes. Ruśnz r nǎ ɖ wrld’z bigist yzrz v vrćl prîṿt netwrcs – onlîn srṿsz ɖt cn srcmvnt stetsnsrśp v ɖ inṭnet. Xîlcḿṇtiz frniś ɖer cmpatrịts wɖ mor truʈfl acǎnts v ẃt z haṗnñ in Ycren ɖn enʈñ līġli brōdcast insd Ruśa.

It wd b preṃtyr t imajin ɖt Mr Pūtin’z pziśn z mć wìcnd. H hz līvrz v coŕśn t compnset fr eni dclîn in inʈyziazm fr hiz rūl. Bt ɖ sînz v britlnis r stl incuṛjñ az evidns v sm ptnśl aṗtît amñ Ruśnz, insd n ǎtsd ɖ cuntri, fr a difṛnt cnd v poḷtics. Cultvetñ ɖt inṭrest, s’portñ ɖ xîlz, n recgnîzñ n ampḷfayñ ɖ difṛns btwn ɖ Ruśn ppl n ɖer criminl līdrśp wl b incrisñli importnt in ɖ munʈs n yirz t cm. Ẃl Mr Pūtin’z dfit in Ycren z a stṛtījic n moṛl impeṛtiv fr Yṛpiyn dmocṛsiz, n norṃlîześn v rleśnz wɖ Mosco sīmz lîc a rmot prospect, ɖ ambiśn canot b abandnd oltgɖr. Fr ɖt ambiśn t b plōzibl, ɖ sīdz v a difṛnt Ruśa mst b nrćrd ẃrvr ɖe gro.

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"House by the Railroad," Edward Hopper, 1925

In Ñspel: The Observer view on negotiating with Vladimir Putin: it’s too soon

Ukrainians in Kyiv celebrate Russia’s retreat from Kherson on 12 November 2022. Photograph: Ed Ram/Getty Images
Ycreńnz in Cyīv seḷbret Ruśa’z rtrit fṛm Hersón on 12 Nvmbr 2022. Foṭgraf: Ed Ram/Geti Iṃjz

Ɖ Obzrvr vy on ngośietñ wɖ Vladīmir Pūtin: it’s tù sn

(Transcription of a Guardian editorial of 13 Nov. 2022)

Ycren z in a stroñ pziśn aftr rītecñ Hersón bt ɖ wst mst rzist ɖ rj t pś fr a setlmnt wɖ Ruśa

Súnde 13 Nvmbr 2022

Vḷdīmir Pūtin’z dsiźn t ste awe fṛm ɖs wīc’s G20 sumit v wrld līdrz in Bāli z telñ. Ẃl Inḍnīźa insistd ɖt Ruśa’z prezidnt wz welcm, hiz prezns wd hv bn an imbaṛsmnt. H z an inṭnaśnl p’raia – n h nz it. Īvn Ćîna apirz t b luzñ peśns.

Ɖ rīzn fr ɖs z, v cors, Ycren, ẃr Pūtin’z c’lamiṭs “speśl militri oṗreśn” dmiṇśz him n hiz cuntri bî ɖ de. Last wīc’s liḅreśn bî Ycreńn forsz v Hersón, folowñ vicṭriz arnd Cyīv n in Harcīv rījn, wz ɖ most sgnificnt Ruśn rvrs sins ɖ inveźn bgan in Febrri. Pūtin anxt ɖ Hersón oblast in Sptmbr aftr a foni reḟrendm n dclerd it soṿrin teritri. Ɖ pṛvinśl capitl, ɖ onli wn in Cremlin handz, wd “nvr” b srendrd, h vaud.

Nǎ, hiz trūps, firñ insrclmnt, hv cut n run, scuṭlñ of t ɖ reḷtiv sefti v ɖ īst banc v ɖ Dnipro Rivr. Xibtñ tredmarc p’liticl cawdis, a śelśoct Pūtin hz bn trayñ t distns himslf fṛm ɖs dzastr. H left it t hiz haplis dfnsministr, Serge Śîgu, n nyli apôntd hardlîn cmandr in Ycren, Jén. Serge Sŭrovīcin, t brec ɖ hymilietñ nyz t TV vywrz.

Bt evri Ruśn nz hu z rsponsbl. Fr dictetrz lîc Pūtin, ɖt z ɖ prîs v abṣlut pǎr. Ɖ Hersón dbācl hz frɖr dspeld ɖ ōra v a wîz, ol-nwñ, zar-lîc faɖrfigr ɖt h hz cultvetd ovr tū decedz. Sadli, Pūtin z nt yt finiśt, bt hiz public standñ z cnsidṛbli wìcnd. Ɖs sns ɖt Ruśa z on ɖ bac ft z wn v sevṛl factrz fylñ spekleśn abt pīstōcs. Jén. Marc Mile, ćermn v ɖ YS jônt ćīfs, argyd last wīc ɖt a “windo v oṗtyṇti” wz oṗnñ az wintr frizz ɖ fruntlînz. Cyīv’z trūps wr unlîcli t advans mć frɖr untl sprñ, h sd, n cd ɖen fes a betr-orġnîzd eṇmi. Ngośietrz śd “sīz ɖ momnt.”

Firz ɖt ɖ wor me drag on incnclūsivli fr yirz, repḷcetñ ɖ et-yir Donbas stelmet, fīd ɖ tōc abt tōcs. Ɖ hymn cost z undǎtidli hrific, wɖ an esṭmetd 100,000 militri caźltiz on ć sîd. Hundṛdz v ʈǎzndz v sviłnz hv olso bn cild, injrd, trōṃtîzd n dsplest.

Mnẃl, Pntgn ćīfs wuri abt esc̣letñ fînanśl costs n wepnzśorṭjz – a probḷm olrdi afctñ Yṛpiyn Nāto stets. Ɖ YS hz pṛvîdd $19.3bn (£17bn) in līʈl ed t Ycren, includñ an adiśnl $400m last wīc. Ɖr z tōc v a ny $50bn cngreśnl pacij bî yir’z end. Ɖs wl nt plīz sm nyli ilectd Rpublicnz, hu wont t cut ed. Rîzñ p’liticl preśrz r nt cnfînd t ɖ YS. Far-rît n far-left Yṛpiyn partiz, pīscampenrz n Pūtin admîrrz sć az Hunġri’z prîm̦inistr, Viktor Orbán, olso qsćn unliṃtd YY s’port fr a liṃtlis conflict amd an eṇji n cost-v-livñ sqīz. Ɖe wont ɖ wor t stop nǎ.

Ɖt z nt a vy śerd bî Ycren’z līdrśp n sitiznz. Prezidnt Vlodimir Zelensci n hiz advîzrz se bluntli ɖr z nʈñ t ngośiet abt ẃl Mosco’z agreśn cntinyz n, in eni ces, Pūtin canot b trustd. Ɖe pônt ǎt ɖt ɖr z no sîn Ruśa z redi fr sirịs tōcs. Rɖr, it z digñ in n pripẹrñ fr a loñ wintr v atriśnl worfér.

Pūtin’z terristic misîl n dron atacs on ilectriṣti n wōtr infṛstrucćr apir onli t hv hardnd ordnri ppl’z rzistns. Last wīc, Zelensci riiṭretd Ycren’z dmandz: “Resṭreśn v teṛtorịl integṛti, rspct fr ɖ YN ćartr, compnseśn fr ol daṃjz cōzd bî ɖ wor, puniśmnt v evri worcriminl n gaṛntìz ɖt ɖs wl nt hapn agn.” Ɖ risc v growñ difṛnsz btwn Cyīv n Wośñtn z evidnt. Wɖ Yṛpiyn Nāto alîz, nt līst Britn, priokpaid bî conflict-rletd ic̣nomic probḷmz, ɖ Bîdn admiṇstreśn hz incrisñli tecn ćarj v ɖ wstn wor eḟt. Bt a rīsnt, informl YS sjsćn ɖt Ycren adopt a mor flex̣bl pziśn wnt dǎn vri badli in Cyīv. Dis’grīmnts ovr hǎ t pṛsid hv olso imrjd wɖn ɖ YS guvnmnt itslf, wɖ Jec Sulivn, Jo Bîdn’z naśnl-s’kṛti advîzr, rportidli rzistñ Jén. Mile’z advîs. Sulivn n uɖr Ẃît Hǎs eidz argy eni pōz in ɖ fîtñ wd gv Ruśa tîm t riinfors, rīgrūp n riarm.

Olɖo ɖ YS b’livd ɖ wor wd b setld ʈru ngośieśnz, it wz nt “preṣ́rñ” Ycren, Sulivn sd last wīc. “W’r nt insistñ on ʈñz wɖ Ycren. Ẃt w r dwñ z cnsultñ az partnrz.” Nvɖles, ɖ impreśn rmenz, aftr hiz vizit t Cyīv last wīcend, ɖt ɖ YS hz bgun t xplor ẃt a setlmnt mt ultiṃtli lc lîc.

A yrnñ fr a qc, penlis end z a naćṛl rspons t slōtr n miẓri. Dsruptd gren s’plîz t dveḷpñ cuntriz, firz v ńclir esc̣leśn, dîr invîrnmntl impacts, ɖ weṗnîześn v fosilfylz n ɖ ic̣nomic pen flt bî ppl evrẃr ol ad t preśr fr a swift reẓluśn. Endlis wor z nt an opśn. Ngośieśnz wɖ ɖ Ruśn guvnmnt, nt nesseṛli wɖ Pūtin, wl hapn ivnć̣li. Bt ɖ tîm z nt yt rîp. Ycren mst b alaud t ćūz its momnt n bgin eni tōcs fṛm a pziśn v maximm streñʈ. Pūtin mst nt b rwordd fr hiz bć̣ri. Mor vicṭriz lîc ɖt in Hersón cn pev ɖ we t pīs.

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"House by the Railroad," Edward Hopper, 1925

In Ñspel: The Guardian view on Russia’s war machine: little more than a brittle facade

Vladimir Putin at a military training centre in Ryazan, Russia. Photograph: Mikhail Klimentyev/AP
Vḷdīmir Pūtin at a militri trenñsntr in Riazan, Ruśa. Foṭgraf: Mihaīl Klimentiev/AP

Ɖ Gardịn vy on Ruśa’z wor mśīn: litl mor ɖn a britl fsād

(Transcription of an editorial published in the Guardian on 26 October 2022)

Vḷdīmir Pūtin’z dfit in Ycren z nīdd fr ɖ resṭreśn v hop t Ruśnz wontñ a betr fyćr fr ɖmslvz az wel az ɖer nebrz

Wnzde 26 Octobr 2022

Vḷdīmir Pūtin z luzñ ɖ wor in Ycren, bt ɖs dz nt mc him eni les denjṛs. A despot huz oʈoṛti at hom dpndz on pṛjctñ streñʈ abrōd canot aford ɖ hymilieśn v dfit. So far, ɖ Ruśn prezidnt hz rspondd t evri setbac wɖ mor agreśn. Ɖt involvz mor indiscrimiṇt atacs on sviłnz n sivl infṛstrucćr. Bt Mr Pūtin olso mcs mor dmandz v Ruśnz. Ẃn ɖ wor bgan, sviłn s’port fr ẃt snsrśp lwz insistd on cōlñ a “speśl militri oṗreśn” wz hî, bt mostli pasiv. Sać̣retd wɖ Cremlin propganda, most v ɖ cuntri axptd ɖ d’renjd ofiśl vrśn v ivnts – ɖt Ycreńnz wr crayñ ǎt fr “liḅreśn” bî Ruśn soljrz.

Bt ɖr wz olso dsnt n protest in dfayns v rpreśn. Tnz v ʈǎzndz v ppl left ɖ cuntri in horr ẃn ɖ wor bgan. Ɖer numbr wz ɖen swoḷn bî Mr Pūtin’z dsiźn last munʈ t dcler a “parśl moḅlîześn” v fîtñ-ej men.

Plenti hv sînd p wilñli, folowñ ẃt ɖe b’liv z ɖer petriotic dyti, or fr wont v betr implômnt. Bt mni r nt so cīn on spilñ ɖer ǒn blud fr a cōz ɖt wz mor apilñ ẃn cnfînd t fix́ṇlîzd nyzbŭḷtinz.

Ɖ scel v ɖ moḅlîześn hz md it hardr t cnsil ɖ abject cndiśn v Ruśn soljrz in ɖ fīld. Conscripts r biyñ snt t Ycren wɖt trenñ, worm cloɖz, fuñṣ́nñ wepnz or eni sns v ẃt ɖe r s’pozd t b aćivñ. Ɖer dsme rejistrz wɖ añśs faṃliz bac hom.

Opińnpoulz ɖt śo masiv s’port fr ɖ wor r unrilaybl, sins oponnts v Mr Pūtin r wẹrịr v śẹrñ ɖer vyz wɖ strenjrz. Indipndnt aṇlists se ɖt ɖr probbli z stl a mjoṛti in fevr, bt ɖt it z nt moṇliʈic. Ɖr r hardlîn naśṇlists hu si ɖ conflict az a crūsed agnst ɖ wst, bt olso a les îdịlojicl segmnt ɖt bacs ɖ cuntri’z armd forsz az a matr v culćṛl habit. Ɖ formr grūp z cmitd t totl wor wɖt limits. Ɖ latr camp wd gladli si ɖ hol ʈñ bròt t a swift cncluźn. Ɖt dviźn z incrisñli rflectd in dbets on stet propganḍćanlz, ẃr it z no longr tbu t sjst ɖt ʈñz hv nt gn t plan.

Ɖ prezidnt z stl bynd criṭsizm. In draftñ sviłnz t fît, Mr Pūtin intndd t hardn opińn, apilñ t naśnl miʈs v slf-sacṛfîs fr ɖ gretr glori v Ruśa, cnvrtñ wevrrz intu crūsedrz. Hvr, h mt b aćivñ ɖ oṗzit.

H badli undr-esṭmetd ɖ cpaṣti v Ycren t rzist inveźn in Febrri, n h hz oṿesṭmetd ɖ redinis v Ruśnz t martr ɖmslvz fr hiz vaṇti. Indipndnt Ruśn mīdia in xîl rport ɖt sīńr guvnmntfigrz hv lost feʈ in Mr Pūtin, bt hv no we v rplesñ him. Ɖ imij v ttaḷterịn cntrol śoun t ɖ wst z a fsād, cnsilñ a wìc strucćr hld tgɖr bî fir, c’rupśn n inrśa.

Mr Pūtin’z oʈoṛti canot wɖstand unliṃtd militri setbacs n hiz reźīm mt b mor britl ɖn it lcs. Hiz meʈ̇d v rspondñ t fełr wɖ esc̣leśn z līdñ t yt mor fełr. Hiz dfit in Ycren wd b ɖ just ǎtcm fr ɖ ppl v ɖt cuntri. It z olso a nesṣri step on ɖ loñ rod t a betr fyćr fr Ruśa.

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In Ñspel: The Guardian view on Putin’s escalations: dangerous times

The aftermath of a Russian missile strike on a residential block in Zaporizhzhia. Photograph: Future Publishing/Ukrinform/Getty Images
Ɖ afṭmaʈ v a Ruśn misîlstrîc on a reẓdnśl bloc in Zaporīźa. Foṭgraf: Fyćr Pubḷśñ/Ycrinform/Geti Iṃjz

Ɖ Gardịn vy on Pūtin’z esc̣leśnz: denjṛs tîmz

(Transcription of an editorial published in the Guardian on 11 October 2022)

Ɖ Ruśn prezidnt z mcñ sviłnz sufr fr ɖ s’xesz v Ycren’z cǎnṭ’fnsiv

Tyzde 11 Octobr 2022

Ɖ  misîlz ɖt hv rênd dǎn on Ycreńn sitiz far fṛm ɖ fruntlîn sins Munde mornñ, strîcñ plêgrǎndz n uɖr sviłn targits, r rtalieśn fr ɖ blast at ɖ Crć brij btwn Ruśa n Crîmīa. Bt it z Vḷdīmir Pūtin’z rej at ɖ brōdr s’xes v ɖ Ycreńn cǎnṭ’fnsiv ɖt hz śiftd ɖ wor fṛm a grîndñ militri stelmet intu a mor denjṛs fêz. Ɖ Ruśn prezidnt hz riylîzd ɖt h z luzñ on ɖ grǎnd; ɖt mejr dmocṛsiz wl nt īẓli b bŭlid ǎt v s’portñ Cyīv; n consiqntli ɖt h cn no longr cǎnt on Ycren’z ivnćl cpićleśn. Hiz rspons – anxeśn n moḅlîześn – hz onli incrist ɖ preśr on him, crietñ hayr xpcteśnz amñ hōciś dmestic ilīts v hǎ far h wl g, n ełnetñ brōdr p’liticl s’port. Ɖ frst deʈs v moḅlîzd soljrz wr rportd ɖs wīc.

Ẃl Ruśa canot ssten ɖs ret v atac – 80 misîlz on Munde alon – ɖ sviłn deʈs n damij t wōtr n pǎr fsiḷtiz wl cntiny. Ɖo ɖ asōlt hz so far stifnd rzistns, rɖr ɖn sapñ mrāl, ɖ aproć v wintr n ɖ dtirịreśn v infṛstrucćr wl tec ɖer tol on sviłnz. Ycren wl hv t ćūz btwn dployñ er-dfns sistmz t pṛtct sitiz, or imployñ ɖm in its cǎnṭ’fnsiv.

Wl Mr Pūtin nǎ g frɖr? Ɖs wor’z rvrḅreśnz r olrdi flt far bynd Ycren’z bordrz. Ɖ IMF wornd on Tyzde ɖt ɖr z a growñ risc v globl rseśn nxt yir dy in part t ɖ fōlǎt. Az Josep Borrell, ɖ YY foṛn-poḷsi ćīf, obzrvd in a strîcñ spīć, ɖs z a wrld “ẃr evrʈñ z biyñ weṗnîzd”. Mor frîtnñli, Mr Pūtin hz olso rtrnd t ɖ ńclir blacmeil ɖt h frst atmtd in sprñ; nǎ hiz desṗreśn mcs ɖ ʈret mor sirịs. Jo Bîdn last wīc wornd ɖt ɖ wrld wz ɖ closist it hd cm t ńclir ctastṛfi sins ɖ Kbn misîlcrîsis 60 yirz ago, n cd fes Arṃgedn f Ruśa yzz a tacticl ńclir wepn. A tacticl wepn wd b far mor devstetñ ɖn ɖ bomz dropt on Hrośima n Nagsaci, ẃć md ɖ wrld vǎ nvr agn.

So far, ɖr r no sînz v Ruśa pripẹrñ sć wepnz fr ys. Ɖ asōlt on Cyīv, Lviv n Zaporīźa z a rmîndr ɖt h hz uɖr brūtl mīnz v atmtñ t impoz hiz wil; ńclir wepnz r a last rzort. Ɖr z no gaṛnti ɖt a lōnć ordr wd b carid ǎt. Ɖ YS wornñ v “caṭstrofic” consiqnsz śrli weiz on ɖ mîndz v Ruśn hardlînrz, n Ćîna n India hv dǎtlis md ɖer dis’pruvl clir. Nnɖles, it nǎ apirz a mor sirịs posbiḷti ɖn it sīmd īvn ɖs sprñ.

Z ɖr an oltrṇtiv t frɖr esc̣leśn? Ruśa wd lîc t frīz ɖs conflict: ɖ Cremlin sjsts ɖt it z opn t pīstōcs wɖ Ycren ʈru mīdietrz – bt līdñ vôsz simlteńsli pṛclem maxiṃlist objctivz includñ reźīmćenj. Ycreńnz n uɖr obzrvrz cnclud ɖt eni sīsfîr wd b yzd bî Mosco az an oṗtyṇti t rīgrūp n riarm, streñʈ̇nñ its forsz fr ɖ nxt fêz v ɖ wor.

Soḷdaṛti wɖ Cyīv in ɖ fes v ɖs ʈret z isnśl. Bt cer, az wel az cnvix́n, z nīdd. Ɖ G7 wz rît t stet clirli on Tyzde ɖt it standz frmli wɖ Ycren n wl pṛvîd it wɖ fînanśl, hymaṇterịn, militri, dipḷmatic n līgl s’port “fr az loñ az it tecs”. Līdrz mst mnten ɖ closist woć on Ruśa’z planz. Ɖt includz alrtnis t ɖ mni wez in ẃć Mosco me atmt t xact rvnj agnst ɖoz bacñ Cyīv. Bt it z, v cors, Ycren’z ppl hu r at gretist risc. Ńclir or cnvnśnl, ɖ ʈret t ɖm hz nvr bn gretr in ɖs conflict.

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A firefighter helps his colleague out of a crater after a Russian missile attack on Kyiv, Ukraine, on Monday. Photograph: Roman Hrytsyna/AP
A fîrfîtr hlps hiz colīg ǎt v a cretr aftr a Ruśn misîl’tac on Cyīv, Ycren, on Munde. Foṭgraf: Roman Hritsina/AP

Az ɖ misîlz strîc Cyīv, v cors w r scerd – bt wor hz md s practicl

(Transcription of an article published in the Guardian on 10 October 2022)

Wns agn ślṭrñ unḍgrǎnd, w trî t raśṇlîz ɖs asōlt on ǎr parcs, yṇvrṣtiz n ḿziymz

Nataliya Gumenyuk

Natālia Ğmeńec, Munde 10 Octobr 2022

Frst v ol, it’s scẹri t b bombardd. Fr fîv aurz n 37 minits duznz v rocits lōnćt fṛm ɖ Caspịn n Blac sīz hit Ycreńn sitiz, includñ Cyīv, ẃr I liv n wrc. Ć v ɖm cd dstrô yr hǎs. Az a rportr traṿlñ in ɖ eriaz most afctd bî ɖ wor, I’v sìn ɖ hrific damij ɖz strîcs cn cōz. Jst wn hit cn dstrô a multi-stōri apartmntbildñ, līvñ a brnt scelitn – ovr ɖ wīcend an atac lîc ɖs in Zaporīźa tc at līst 13 lîvz.

Tde Ycreńnz xpirịnst wn v ɖ larjist er’tacs sinz ɖ start v ɖ Ruśn inveźn. Fr ɖ frst tîm, misîlstrîcs hit ɖ vri sntr v ɖ Ycreńn capitl, ẃr at līst fîv ppl wr cild, n duznz wūndd. Ɖz wr mnli cḿtrz gwñ t wrc on Munde mornñ. Fîv mor erstrîcs foloud.

Ɖ Cremlin tarġtd ol mejr Ycreńn tǎnz, includñ Dnipro n Ħarcīv, Lviv n īvn Ivano-Francivsc in ɖ reḷtivli sef wst v ɖ cuntri. Acordñ t ɖ stét imrjnsisrvis, at līst 11 ppl hv daid, wɖ a frɖr 60 wūndd.

Prezidnt Zelensci hz rcordd a vidiostetmnt seyñ ɖ prîṃri targits wr infṛstrucćr, in ptiklr ɖ pǎrgrid. Ɖ guvnmnt acnolijd at līst 11 importnt targits wr damijd, bt most pǎr hz nǎ bn rstord. In mî Cyīv flat ɖ ilectriṣti wnt of fr no mor ɖn 10 minits, bt eriaz on ɖ ǎtscrts v ɖ siti n parts v Ćrnīhiv, Lviv n Tsŭmé stl hv no pǎr.

Ẃt mcs ɖz atacs so uņrvñ z ɖ imprisiźn v ɖ Ruśn misîlz. Ɖer erstrîcs constntli mis targits. Y cd si ɖs az gd fṛm a practicl militri pspctiv – bt it mīnz ɖt enbdi, at eni gvn momnt, cn bcm a victim. Ɖ Ycreńn vīgn n animl rîts dfndr Pavlo Viśebaba, hu nǎ srvz in ɖ armi, postd a foto v a bomcretr ẃr a plêgrǎnd yst t b in Cyīv sntṛl parc. H refṛnst a prīvịs Ruśn stetmnt ɖt ɖe wd b atacñ militri dsiźn-mcñ sntrz. “It wz ǎr ‘sntr fr dsiźn mcñ’, ẃr w dsîdd ẃɖr mî dōtr îɖr wontd a con or an îs-crīm on a stic,” h joct. At ɖz tîmz, blac hymr z a sort v sîc̣lojicl slf-dfns.

Ɖ prezidnt sd ɖ uɖr em wz t terrîz Ycreńnz, n atac ǎr mrāl. Fr ɖ last fy munʈs w hv woćt ɖ Ruśn armi sstenñ batlfīld losz. Ycren’z rli s’xesz in ɖ Ħarcīv rījn wr larjli atribytd t ɖ fact ɖt ɖ Ruśnz wr tecn bî s’prîz. Bt ɖz s’xesz cntiny; Ycreńn trūps, wɖ gret dificlti, hv cntinyd liḅretñ vilij aftr vilij in ɖ Donbas n Ħersón rījnz.

Ɖ 8 Octobr xploźn on ɖ brij cnctñ okpaid Crîmīa wɖ Ruśa – a prsnl project v Vḷdīmir Pūtin – wz olso a hyj simbolic blo agnst ɖ Ruśn līdrśp. Ɖ Ycreńn guvnmnt dd’nt cnfrm it wz its oṗreśn, bt Ycreńn s’kṛtisrṿsz gev hints ɖe mt b bhnd ɖ atac bî postñ a seḷbretri foto v ɖ brij on fîr. It cōzd an increḍbl str amñ Ruśn worproṗgandists, n cōlz fr imīɉt rtalieśn. Influenśl hōcs wɖn Ruśa hd olrdi bn criṭsîzñ ɖer forsz fr lacñ tufnis.

Tde’z atac on Ycren lcs lîc an atmt t plīz ɖt ptiklr Ruśn ōdịns, n śo ɖt ɖ Cremlin z ceṗbl v hrtñ Ycren. Olso on 8 Octobr, Srge Sŭrovicin wz nemd ɖ cmandr v ol Ruśn forsz invedñ Ycren. Noun fr hiz harśnis, Sŭrovicin, hu cmandd forsz in Siria jrñ ɖ Ruśn militri inṭvnśn ɖr, me yz ɖs imīɉt asōlt az a ćans t istabliś himslf.

N so, sviłnz hu hd injoid sm smōl amǎnt v pīs r on hî alrt agn. Tde, scūlćildṛn r muvd t besmnts. Bizṇsz r clozd dǎn, n mītñz cansld. Cyīv subwe – ẃć startd oṗretñ in ɖ sprñ – agn srvd az ɖ bomśltr. Aftr a fy munʈs injoyñ lîf in Cyīv, mni agn mt cnsidr līvñ.

Yt, aftr sevn munʈs v wor, ɖ Ycreńnz hv faund ɖer wez t cǒp wɖ angr. Aftr a fy aurz ćecñ in on colīgz, frendz, n reḷtivz ol ovr ɖ cuntri, ɖ Ycreńn inṭnet z fl v meṣjz abt hǎ mć ppl hv dnetd t ɖ armi.

Ycreńnz olso wuri ɖt aftr a fy aurz v cmpaśn fṛm ppl arnd ɖ wrld, w mt hír ny cōlz t srendr. Ɖz, cmñ fṛm ɖ sefti v far-of Yṛpiyn tǎnz, sǎnd nt jst in’proprịt, bt uneʈicl. Ɖ multipl crîmz cmitd in okpaid teritriz sć az Bŭća n Izịm śo ɖt ɖ oltrṇtivz t rzistns cn b nt jst prṣkśn, bt mas x’kśn n torćr.

W r scerd at ɖ momnt, bt ɖt z difṛnt t livñ in ppćl fir. Ycreńn dfayns dz’nt mīn bṛvādo. Mor ɖn enʈñ, ɖ fīlñ y gt ẃl sitñ in a besmnt lcñ at ɖ eŗêd-wornñ map fr fîv aurz n 37 minits z pragṃtizm. W ʈnc nt abt grand îdīaz, bt ilectriṣti n wōtr s’plîz, dokmnts, dêli raśnz n cntinjnsiplanz.

Ǎt v mor ɖn 80 rocits fîrd intu Ycren tde, at līst haf wr rportidli śot dǎn bî ɖ Ycreńn er dfns. Ẃt cn lc teṛfayñ n inevitbl cn b stopt wɖ propr dfnsz. Ɖs lcs lîc ɖ onli raṣ́nl ansr t ɖ iraśnl asōlt on ǎr parcs, yṇvrṣtiz, ḿziymz. It mst cntiny.

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Natālia Ğmeńec z a Ycreńn jrṇlist speṣ́lîzñ in foṛn aferz n conflict rportñ, n oʈr v Lost Îḷnd: Têlz fṛm ɖ Okpaid Crîmīa

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Von der Leyen sz YY soḷdaṛti wɖ Ycren ‘unśec̣bl’ – vidio

‘Pūtin wl fel n Yṛp wl privel,’ YY ćīf tlz MYPz

(Transcription of an article published in the Guardian on 14 September 2022)

Yṛpiyn Cmiśn prezidnt olso vǎz t spīd Ycren’z YY intgreśn in wîd-renjñ spīć

Jennifer Rankin

Jenifr Rancin in Bruslz, Wnzde 14 Sptmbr 2022

Ɖ  Yṛpiyn Cmiśn prezidnt, Ŕsyla von der Leyen, hz insistd “Pūtin wl fel n Yṛp wl privel”, az ś vaud t pres on wɖ Ycren’z YY intgreśn.

Adresñ ɖ Yṛpiyn parḷmnt in Strazbrg, ɖ YY xektiv prezidnt iśùd a raliyñcōl intndd t ynît membrstets graṗlñ wɖ an eṇjicrîsis az wintr drwz nir. Von der Leyen dscrîbd ɖ Ruśn inveźn az nt onli a wor on Ycren, bt “a wor on ǎr icoṇmi, a wor on ǎr valyz n a wor on ǎr fyćr”.

Drest in ɖ blu n yelo culrz v Ycren’z naśnl flag, ɖ cmiśnprezidnt anǎnst ś wd vizit Cyīv lêtr on Wnzde n pland dīteld dscuśnz wɖ Ycren’z prezidnt, Vlodimir Zelensci, on enśurñ Ycren’z “sìmlis axes t ɖ sngl marcit”.

Ycren’z frst ledi, Olenca Zelensca, wz amñ ɖ ōdịns in Strazbrg n gvn a standñ oveśn bî MYPz.

Von der Leyen promist t wrc wɖ Zelensca on ɖ rīcnstrux́n v Ycreńn scūlz n plejd €100m (£87m) in YY fundz. An esṭmetd 70 scūlz hv bn damijd or toṭli dstroid bî Ruśa.

Ɖ Yṛpiyn Cmiśn prezidnt, hu hz olrdi viẓtd Cyīv twîs sins ɖ ǎtbrec v wor, olso sd ɖ YY wd ste ɖ cors wɖ its sañśnz on Ruśa. “Ɖ sañśnz r hir t ste,” ś sd. “Ɖs z ɖ tîm fr s t śo rzolv nt apizmnt.”

Ś sd ɖ YY’z ic̣nomic rstrix́nz on ɖ Ruśn icoṇmi wr wrcñ, n ofrd sm îcaćñ clemz. “Ɖ Ruśn militri z tecñ ćips fṛm diśwōśrz n rfriɉretrz t fix ɖer militri hardwér, bcz ɖe ran ǎt v semicnductrz.”

Az xpctd, Von der Leyen cnfrmd ɖ cmiśn wz pśñ ahd wɖ windfōl taxz on eṇjicumṗniz’ xes profits. YY ofiślz hop t rêz €140bn, ẃć wl b ćanld t vulnṛbl hǎsholdz n bizṇsz struġlñ wɖ a tenfold incris in gasprîsz sins bfr ɖ Covid pandemic.

“Mejr ôl, gas n col cumṗniz r olso mcñ hyj profits,” Von der Leyen sd. “So ɖe hv t pe ɖer fer śer – ɖe hv t gv a crîsiscontṛbyśn.” Ś olso cnfrmd ɖt ɖ profits v jeṇretrz v lo-carbn ilectriṣti, rnywbl n ńclir frmz, wd olso b capt, wɖ ɖ fundz rīdistribytd t ppl in nīd.

Ɖ cmiśn hz rtritd on ɖ îdīa v a prîscap on gas. YY membrstets wr split ovr ẃć cuntriz ɖ cap śd cuvr, ẃl sm wr flatli opozd t ɖ îdīa, firñ a ʈret t s’kṛti v s’plîz.

YY pṛpozz profits fṛm eṇjifrmz śd g ‘t ɖoz hu nīd it most’ – vidio

Von der Leyen sjstd ś hd nt abandnd a prîscap in sm form, proṃsñ t dveḷp “a set v meźrz ɖt tec intu acǎnt ɖ sṗsific nećr v ǎr rleśnśp wɖ s’playrz, renjñ fṛm unrilaybl s’playrz sć az Ruśa t rlaybl frendz sć az Norwe”.

N in a vicṭri fr cuntriz sć az Spen n Frans ɖt hv loñ cmplend abt YY ilectriṣtimarcit rūlz, ś promist “dīp n comprihnsiv rform” ɖt wd hlp cnsymrz beṇfit fṛm ćīpr rnywblz.

Ɖ wîd-renjñ spīć olso tućt on ɖ clîṃtcrîsis, wɖ Von der Leyen argywñ ɖ record-brecñ hot n drî sumr v 2022 śd galṿnîz eḟts fr adapteśn. Ś promist t dubl ɖ YY’z flīt v fîr-fîtñ ercraft n helicoptrz t fît foristfîrz.

Ś olso opnd ɖ dor t a rviźn v ɖ YY’z fǎndñtrītiz n promist tîtr rūlz agnst c’rupśn insd YY membrstets.

Wɖ Ruśa’z inveźn v Ycren ɖ mn ʈīm v ɖ spīć, Von de Leyen cōld fr a rīʈnc v poḷsiz fṛm eṇji t ɖ trītmnt v refyjīz. In a refṛns t ɖ YY’z loñ-stōld tōcs on ɖ comn manijmnt v asîḷmsīcrz, Von der Leyen sd: “Ǎr ax́nz twdz Ycreńn refyjīz mst nt b an xpśn. Ɖe cn b a blūprint fr gwñ fwd.”

Ś olso acnolijd ɖ loñ-vôst cmplents v Poḷnd n Bōltic stets ɖt ɖer wornñz abt ɖ Ruśn prezidnt hd gn unhīdd in wstn Yṛp. “W śd hv lisnd t ɖ vôsz insd ǎr yńn … Ɖe hv bn telñ s fr yirz ɖt Pūtin wd nt stop.”

Unlîc similr spīćz in rīsnt yirz, ɖr wz no d’rect mnśn v ɖ YC, olɖo Von der Leyen, an anglofîl hu studid at ɖ Lundn Scūl v Īc̣nomics, peid tribyt t Qīn Iliẓbʈ II. “Ś z a lejnd,” Von der Leyen sd. “Ś wz a constnt ʈrt ɖ trbyḷnt n trnsformñ ivnts in ɖ last 70 yirz.”

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Vladimir Putin attends a meeting about the development of the shipbuilding industry via video conference in Sochi. Photograph: Mikhail Klimentyev/Sputnik/AFP/Getty Images
Vladīmir Pūtin atndz a mītñ abt ɖ dveḷpmnt v ɖ śipbildñ inḍstri via vidioconfṛns in Soći. Foṭgraf: Micîl Climentiev/Spŭtnic/AFP/Geti Iṃjz

Loṛns Frīdmn: ‘Ōtocṛsiz tnd t mc caṭstrofic dsiźnz. Ɖt’s ɖ ces wɖ Pūtin’

(Transcription of an interview published in the Observer on Sunday 21 August 2022)

Ɖ militri-straṭji xprt n oʈr v a ny bc on conflict sz ɖ flwd ʈncñ bhnd Ruśa’z inveźn stemz fṛm ɖ in’biḷti v ɖoz at ɖ top t tec rsponsbiḷti fr mstecs

Peter Beaumont

Pītr Bomont, Súnde, 21 Ōġst 2022

Ruśa’z wor agnst Ycren hz bn hamprd bî felñz xpirịnst bî ōṭcratic stets jrñ conflict, acordñ t a far-rīćñ ny studi v cmand in wor bî wn v ɖ YC’z most prominnt acdemics in ɖ fīld.

Cmand, a wîd-renjñ anaḷsis v post-secnd wrldwor conflicts bî ɖ līdñ stṛtījic-studiz xprt Loṛns Frīdmn, xaminz a siriz v wel-noun conflicts, fṛm ɖ Kbn misîlcrîsis t ɖ Frenć dfit at ɖ handz v ɖ Viet Min at Dien Bien Fu, ʈru t ɖ Fōcḷndz wor n Sadam Hsen’z inveźn v Cwet, p t ɖ preznt wor in Ycren.

“Ɖ big ʈīm,” sd Frīdmn, imeriṭs pṛfesr v worstudiz at Cñ’z Colij Lundn, “z ɖt ōtocṛsiz r vri bad at ɖs. A lot v most caṭstrofic dsiźnz cm fṛm ōṭcratic dsiźn-mcñ. Ɖt z srtnli ɖ ces wɖ Vladīmir Pūtin bt olso Sadam Hsen n īvn [ɖ Arjntīn militri dictetr Leopoldo] Galtieri jrñ ɖ Fōcḷndz wor.”

Bt h adz: “It’s nt ɖt dmocṛsiz olwz mc betr dsiźnz.”

Az Frīdmn’z bc sets ǎt t śo, in ci inṭax́nz btwn militri n p’liticl līdrz – ẃć īvn in ɖ bst srcmstansz cn b caṛcṭrîzd bî tnśnz n prsnl conflicts – it z ɖ lac v opn n ofn criticl fīdbac ɖt līdz t bad dsiźn-mcñ.

“Ōtocṛsiz d’nt hv ɖ fīdbac mec̣nizm, n dig ɖmslvz in bî b’livñ ɖt ɖ advantij v ōtocṛsi z bold n dsîsiv dsiźn-mcñ.

“Ẃl in srtn srcmstansz y cn toḷret qt a lot v bad dsiźn-mcñ n cm ǎt ol rît, bcz y hv s’pirịr numbrz, ẃr it z vri tît, wn pur dsiźn or bit v bad luc cn pt y ǎt cmplitli.”

N ẃl Ruśn militri oṗreśnz fr mor ɖn a snć̣ri hv ofn rlaid on yzñ oṿẃlmñ numbrz (ofn wɖ litl cnsiḍreśn fr losz), in Ycren, Ruśa apirz t hv bn cnstrend bî dmestic p’liticl cnsiḍreśnz fṛm intṛdysñ a jenṛl moḅlîześn, ẃć hz liṃtd ɖ scel v forsz it cn dplô.

Lawrence Freedman
Loṛns Frīdmn, imeriṭs pṛfesr v worstudiz at Cñ’z Colij Lundn, hz ritn a ny studi abt cmand in militri conflicts. Foṭgraf: Roberto Ricciuti/Geti Iṃjz

Wn iśu ɖt hz intrīgd Frīdmn, az wel az uɖr aṇlists, z ẃ Pūtin – huz ys v fors hd bn liṃtd in scop bfr Ycren – imbarct on sć a denjṛs n badli priperd-fr gambl in Ycren.

“Militri fors hd bn qt gd fr Pūtin p untl nǎ. H yzd it ifctivli in Ćećńa, Crîmīa, Jorja n Siria. H yzd it in qt a liṃtd faśn in Ycren’z Donbas rījn in 2014 ẃr ɖoz dwñ hiz drti wrc wontd him t tec an īvn mor agresiv aproć.

“Bt hiz aproć t ɖ cuṛnt Ycren conflict hz clirli bn dludd. Y hv t asym h dd’nt riylîz ɖ gambl h wz tecñ. H jenyinli ʈt Ycren wd crumbl qt qcli, n it’s hard t nǒ ẃ. “Īvn ɖoz [foṛn] aṇlists hu ʈt Ycren’z militri mt nt d wel dd’nt b’liv ɖt ɖ Ycreńn ppl wd s’cum. Bt h dd.

H dd si it az a speśl militri oṗreśn [ɖ trm ɖ Cremlin hz cnsistntli yzd rɖr ɖn “wor”] ɖt wd last a fy dez. N wns ɖt plan hd feld, ɖe wr on ɖ bac ft.”

A ci fełr, in Frīdmn’z vy, wz ɖt ẃl Ruśn intelijns hd wîdli infltretd Ycren – az īvn Cyīv hz acnolijd – ɖ ci figrz arnd Pūtin îɖr dd nt unḍstand Ycren or actd az an ecoćembr fr him.

“Xprts on Ycren in Ruśa d’nt sīm t hv bn cnsultd. It lcs lîc Pūtin wz tōcñ t hiz mêts in ɖ FSB [ɖ fedṛl s’kṛti srvis] n GRU [militri intelijns] hu śerd hiz preɉdisz. N ɖ rantñ spīć h gev on 21 Febrri [ʈri dez bfr Ruśa invedd] z stl az gd a gîd az enʈñ t ẃt h ʈncs. It z clir fṛm ɖt ɖt h fîndz it vri hard t tec Ycren n its prezidnt, Vlodimir Zelensci, sirịsli. I ʈnc h ʈt Zelensci wd mc a dīl. H dd’nt.”

At ɖ hart v ɖ probḷm, Frīdmn b’livz, z ɖ rijidli hîrarcicl nećr v ɖ Cremlin’z dsiźn-mcñ n hǎ ɖoz at ɖ vri top r iḿn t rsponsbiḷti fr mstecs.

“Ɖr r no insntivz t tel ɖ truʈ on ɖ grǎnd t ɖ hayr cmand. Ɖ sīńr militri – ppl sć az dfnsministr Serge Śôgu n ćīf v ɖ jenṛl stāf Valeri Gerasimov – r ol part v ɖ inr srcl. Ɖ’v sact lots v jenṛlz nǎ ɖe nǒ ɖt ɖr’z a probḷm. Bt it’s nt ɖm ɖt’s ɖ probḷm. It’s olwz smwn els.”

N sins Ruśa’z frst plan t topl Ycren wɖ a coup de main agnst Cyīv c’lapst wɖn ɖ frst fy wīcs amd firs Ycreńn rzistns n Ruśn l’jisticl incompitns, Mosco hz strugld t fînd a creḍbl plan B.

“Ɖe traid fr plan B – ɖ feṃs convô ɖt gaɖrd ǎtsd Cyīv – bt ɖe cd’nt fînd wn. It wz l’jisticli bynd ɖm. Ɖ lînz wr tù xpozd. So ɖe rvrtd bac t consntretñ on ɖ Donbas.

“Īvn ɖen it tc untl Me t foc̣s on ẃt ɖe cd d – artiḷribarāźz on a naro frunt, a tactic fr ẃć Ycren hd no īzi rspons, xpt t tec hevi caźltiz untl wstn wepnzsistmz bgan arîvñ.”

Īvn nǎ, six munʈs intu ɖ wor, Frīdmn struglz t unḍstand ɖ lojic v ɖ Cremlin, nt līst its tactic v crietñ a wintrtîm eṇjicrîsis in Yṛp t unḍmain s’port fr Cyīv.

“I ʈnc ɖ onli ‘ʈiyri v vicṭri’ ɖ Cremlin hz at ɖ preznt z ɖt ɖ wst trnz on Ycren bcz v ɖ eṇjicrîsis. Bt ɖ s’prîz ɖr z ɖt Mosco hz nt asct fr a sīsfîr nǎ. Ɖt wd pt Zelensci on ɖ spot bcz h cd’nt agri t wn.

“Instd, Pūtin z stl actñ az ɖo h xpcts mor fṛm ɖs wor ɖn h hz olrdi got. Ẃ I ʈnc ɖr r sm sînz v desṗreśn on ɖ Ruśn sîd z ɖt sm r bginñ t rec̣gnîz ɖt an eṇjicrunć z nt gwñ t līd t a btreyl v Ycren. In ɖ loñ trm, ɖt signlz ɖ risc v dīp damij t Ruśa’z icoṇmi.”

Ẃl Frīdmn z cōśs abt pridictñ ɖt Ruśn forsz cd fes a secnd big setbac – nt līst in ɖ sǎʈ v Ycren, ẃr Cyīv hz bn ifctivli presñ on Cersón – h siz ɖ sem lac v insttyśnl imaɉneśn dfînñ ɖ fyćr tṛjectri v ɖ wor.

“Z ɖr gwñ t b smʈñ big lîc Ruśn forsz gtñ insrcld n trapt [arnd Cersón]? Unls ɖ sistm gts a śoc lîc ɖ wn xpirịnst in lêt Febrri n rli Marć [ẃn Ruśa abandnd its eḟt t tec Cyīv], I ʈnc Ruśa wl dogidli cari on, f fr no uɖr rīzn ɖn ɖt it c’nt ʈnc v enʈñ betr t d. Ɖ Cremlin z paṛlîzd.”

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