Putin's reckless Ukraine war has so weakened Moscow that he needs Xi to bail him out

The punchline of an old Soviet joke has a Russian sharing his dream about the USSR’s future with a Frenchman and a Brit. “Moscow is full of red banners,” he says proudly. What does it say on the banners? They ask. “I couldn’t tell,” he responds. “They wer

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