Mark Gongloff, Columnist

A Losing, Humiliated Putin Is the Most Dangerous Putin

Like a cornered rat, he still has plenty of ways to lash out.

We're trapped in here with him.

Photographer: MIKHAIL KLIMENTYEV/AFP/Getty Images

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