The Kremlin rushes to repaint fading red lines, brandishing its all-too-predictable nuclear stick to respond to Ukrainian long-range strikes. Russia’s creative accounting is on full display as the Kremlin seeks to distract from its rapidly emptying war chest. Russia is a military superpower with the best army in the world and an absolute economic marvel for as long as the Kremlin’s information-manipulation and disinformation outlets say it is so. We took another stroll down the Kremlin’s halls