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Vladimir Putin set out to restore a cross between the Soviet Union and the Russian Empire. In fact, his botched invasion of Ukraine has revived the West, sprung the EU and Britain into action and unsettled Xi Jinping in China. The only thing that now looks “brain dead”, which is how French president Emmanuel Macron infamously described Nato three years ago, is the Kremlin plan to seize Kyiv in days.