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原文來源：
https://www.ft.com/content/01cdcc3e-22b9-4230-ac11-6c7056098f3f
原文摘要：

        Do not mistake Kherson retreat for a crack in Putin’s armour

The act of invasion itself is seen as a victory: it will be as difficult for
the Russian president to lose this war as to win it


不要把赫爾森的撤退誤認為是普京盔甲上的裂縫
入侵行為本身被視為一場勝利：俄羅斯總統輸掉這場戰爭和贏得這場戰爭一樣困難

(略，只取聯合報記者超級精簡版那段)

        The fact is that Putin’s supporters do not perceive the invasion of
Ukraine as an act of aggression. For them, it’s a retaliation against the
much more powerful west. Researchers of Russian society are observing a
startling paradox. History puts Russia in a row of vast western colonial
empires. But after its defeat in the cold war, the collapse of the Soviet
Union and the economic hardships of the 1990s, a growing number of Russians
felt they had been reduced to a colony ruled by western forces. They now
believe they are casting off the yoke which so humiliated their country and
 “imposed” capitalism upon it.



        In the eyes of dissatisfied Russians, any form of resistance to the
west is a victory, almost regardless of the end result. Even in retreat,
they will console themselves with the thought of having prevented Russia’s
 “further enslavement”. This is why there is no direct link between
military setbacks and the weakening of Putin’s power. It is as difficult
for the president to lose this war as it is to win it. Domestically, even
the invasion itself is a sort of victory. Meanwhile, the passive majority
can be convinced that any outcome is the best possible one. And the critics
will be silenced with repression, just as they are now.




心得感想：

這篇在金融時報發表的文章作者Alexander Baunov
是卡內基國際和平基金會的高階研究員
也是前俄羅斯外交官員
由俄羅斯方面視角看待普丁在這個戰爭中的立場
可以作為一個如何對應俄羅斯方面的參考

至於聯合報那個什麼普亭都是贏家的標題真的看看就好

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