Moscow is focused on winning in Ukraine; all else is a means to that end.

Leonid Ragozin is a freelance journalist based in Riga.

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The abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro by the United States military and the subsequent threats by Washington to intervene in Iran during its recent upheaval have generated a tide of enthusiasm in hawkish pro-Ukraine circles in the West. If Moscow’s allies are weakened, then Russia also gets weaker, the simplistic logic goes.