Two days after Russian President Vladimir Putin sent his armed forces into Ukraine, Russian state news agency RIA Novosti published an article that assumed imminent victory.
It celebrated “a new era,” marked by the end of Western domination, the severing of bonds between the US and continental Europe, and the return of Russia to its rightful “space and place” in the world.
As the war rages on, heralding the arrival of a single Russian World to unite Ukraine with Belarus and Russia looks at best premature. RIA Novosti soon took the article down, but the author was right about one thing: