To continue his “special military operation” in Ukraine, the unscrupulous dictator can count on the support of his generals (for how much longer?), his army (which is reported to have lost 90,000 men and women dead or injured), reinforced by press-ganged recruits (young people who did not manage to flee the country in time, workers, prisoners, the homeless, cancer patients, the unbalanced, etc.) and mercenaries of the Wagner group, the regime’s answer to the SS. In the civil sphere, it...