Vladimir Putin's full-scale invasion of Ukraine turned Russia into a pariah state in the West overnight. The Russian president had assumed he could topple the Ukrainian government within days. But as his 40-mile armored column stalled on the road to Kyiv, Moscow found itself in a protracted conflict, with an unexpectedly resilient opponent backed to the hilt by Washington and Brussels. Its economy was hit by a withering package of U.S.-led sanctions, severance from the SWIFT international