https://www.wsj.com/world/russia/russias-elite-is-souring-on-the-war-putin-doesnt-seem-to-care-2430f3ff?st=s2DhK3&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Ekkokammeret WSJ med sin take på Ru/Ukr-krigen. Matcher denne tråden, pretty much. Gjetter på at journalisten sikkert har henta alle meningene sine herfra 
Russia’s Elite Is Souring on the War. Putin Doesn’t Seem to Care.
" Russia’s inability to break through the stalemate in Ukraine is becoming so evident that significant voices in the Russian establishment have publicly started to call for an end to the conflict.
The big question is whether President Vladimir Putin will acknowledge this reality and abandon his aspiration to extinguish Ukrainian independence.
So far, there is no sign that, in the fifth year of Europe’s bloodiest conflict in generations, he is ready to climb down from the original objectives of his “special military operation.” But that could change if the tide of war turns further in Kyiv’s favor.
Some traditional allies of Russian President Vladimir Putin are calling for the war to end. Vyacheslav Prokofyev/Press Pool
The calls don’t just come from the business elites and more liberal parts of the Russian establishment. Some of Russia’s best-known hawks have also become much more open in expressing a belief that Moscow simply doesn’t have the capacity to achieve an outright victory against Ukraine.
One of those is Oleg Tsaryov, a former Ukrainian lawmaker who fled to Russia in 2014 and who was one of Putin’s top candidates for heading a pro-Russian puppet regime that the Kremlin planned to install in an occupied Kyiv in early 2022. He was severely injured in an assassination attempt attributed to Ukrainian intelligence the following year.
In a Telegram post last month, Tsaryov warned that Russian propaganda had fostered a dangerous illusion about an inevitable victory against Ukraine.
“The professionals in creating an alternative reality have convinced not just the population, but also themselves, that the illusion that they have invented is in fact reality,” he wrote. “Sooner or later, these worlds of illusion and reality must clash. And now it is happening in the most painful form.”"
[min uthevning] av det som er så jævla påtagelig late stage dictatorship
Brunskjorta Putins personlige Stalingrad incoming
Illusjoner og vrangforestillinger møter før eller senere kalde, harde realiteter
