Is losing this war, and if he is losing this war to just ukraine, she really looks weak, and so he has to make the site to be a war with united states, a war with nato come up united states, a war with nato come up with the western world, because otherwise how do he explain losing more than 100,000 soldiers and having another 100,000 wounded? how does he explain losing half his tank fleet? so, the narrative in russia is going from a war with ukraine, or special military operation, to a war with nato, and that is only way he can hold onto his legitimacy and not look at a loser, which is the wor...