Four years into Russia’s war in Ukraine, the principal actors have been radically transformed. For its part, Russia has morphed into an openly militaristic, anti-Western country. A society that after 1945 embraced the saying “anything but war” has now reconciled itself to the role of aggressor. Western hopes that the full-scale invasion of Ukraine would catalyze resistance to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s regime proved misplaced. Russians merely adapted. Aside from Wagner Group leader