Western allies are finally realizing the Ukraine war won't end until Vladimir Putin's dreams of conquest are decisively defeated on the battlefield.
But that reality is forcing strategists to contemplate what might happen inside Russia if Putin can no longer hide his failures. Speculation ranges from his overthrow by associates to a Kremlin collapse to a surviving, sullen Putin.
Yet one thing is certain. If there is any small chance that a Russian defeat might open the door to positive political change, Putin must be prevented from murdering the country's leading opposition politician, Alexei Navalny, whose health is sharply deteriorating as he is badly mistreated in prison.
