The clock is ticking for Russia’s leader – and that means Europe faces an imminent danger, writes Telegraph columnist Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

Oil prices threaten the Kremlin as Ukraine’s technology gives it the advantage.

Vladimir Putin has his back against the wall. He is losing the economic war faster than he is gaining any military advantage in Ukraine.

Russia’s much-feared offensive sputtered out over the summer with 800 casualties a day and little to show for it. The Kremlin failed to break Ukraine’s fortress belt or turn the tide of the war.

“Russians are still harassing us and hunting civilians with drones, which is a horrible practice, but they are not achieving any strategic goal,” said Andriy Zagorodnyuk, Ukraine’s former defence minister.

Meanwhile, the Russian home front is cracking – much as the German home front cracked from war exhaustion after the Kaiser threw everything into his failed spring offensive in 1918.

Read all his insights on the war here: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/10/10/putin-is-losing-the-war-so-prepare-for-escalation/

by TheTelegraph

13 comments

  1. Maybe Putin will try a tactical nuclear weapon on Ukraine and then NATO will have no choice but to go in and end him.

  2. It all depends on the extent to which China and India will support Putin.

    If China and India were to withdraw their support today, the war would be over tomorrow.

    But they don’t want to do that because Putin is throwing a lot of money their way and they are benefiting from the conflict and the pressure on the West.

  3. I bet if he’d be *winning* that war, there would be escalation, too.

  5. There telling me this for last 3 years. He’s still there. And now i think he’s going to win.

  6. Wow, he has the same interior decorator as Donald Trump. How did that happen? Gold, Gold, Gold.

  7. In recent years, there has been a consolidation of efforts by conservative political forces in the United States, Great Britain, and some European countries, as well as the Russian Federation, aimed at destabilizing the European democratic order and undermining the foundations of the European Union. This coalition, operating within the framework of an unspoken and secret conspiracy, uses various tools to achieve its goals, including the military conflict on the territory of Ukraine.

    The Russian Federation, acting as a hidden political ally of conservative circles in the United States and Great Britain, serves as an instrument of pressure on the European community. The main goal of this coalition is to weaken and destroy the EU as a key economic and political competitor in the international arena. To achieve this goal, its supporters, including populists, nationalists, far-right and communists, are promoted to leadership positions in European countries.

    The military conflict in Ukraine acts as an effective instrument of influence on European politics. With its help, the coalition seeks to destabilize the political situation in Europe, divert attention from internal problems and promote the realization of its strategic interests. In this context, conservative forces in the United States, Great Britain and Russia are not interested in ending the conflict as soon as possible, as this contradicts their long-term goals of undermining the European democratic order.

    Thus, it can be stated that there is a complex and multilevel strategy aimed at undermining the foundations of European integration and strengthening the positions of conservative forces in the international arena. This strategy is being implemented through the use of various political and military tools, including an unspoken alliance between conservative circles and the Russian Federation.

  9. Looks like Trump getting his design ideas from Putin

  10. Oh no! Not ESCALATION! OH I’M SO SCARED! I’ve never heard the word “escalation” once in the four years this war has been dragging on. WE’RE DOOMED!

  11. Putin won’t win in Ukraine which means he will face the unpleasant life of a failed dictator that is attacked from all sides to hand over power. He can’t tell the Russians that all the dead, the economic hardships and especially a dark future have been for nothing. So in his logic it would make sense to go all in, confront NATO in the baltics and either go down in flames or be a new stalin. Not a great prospect, but this guy won’t go down without another fight if he’s not stopped/neutralized by his inner circle.

  12. There will be no military escalation because there’s no military to escalate with. Russia will collapse and he will die some way – either by his own hand or during regime change.

  13. I wrote about this a week ago in a different post maybe even channel.

    We are in the end game.
    Ukraine is hurting Russia big time en step by step going to a win. Upcoming winter will be crucial, but it will also be potentially existential for Russia. And what that said, we simply don’t know how they will act and the implications it will have. That’s Sahara is worrying me the most currently. Military experts saying that February or March could be it for Russia, with a similar collapse as the Soviet as a result, if the winter will be cold and the Ukrainians will continue to hurt their economy. God bless the Ukrainians, but a dictator in the corner, down on its knees and doesn’t care about the world or people, knowing his own end is near, might be the most dangerous man in the world.

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