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"As long as the war continues, and even if Ukraine is defeated, I don't think attitudes in the West will change. It is not like, 'OK, now the war is over and we have to restore our ties' with Russia," Rajan Menon, an expert on Russia and Putin at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, told DW.

https://www.dw.com/en/putins-power-play-...a-68509673

[Tangsen]

Here Putin can pivot further south .... we can import these talents