There was no victory for Vladimir Putin to have a good time on Victory Day. As an alternative, the Russian chief is mired in a grinding, inconclusive and more and more humiliating warfare. Forward of his large speech on the Purple Sq. commemoration of victory within the second world warfare, the Russian president had three choices — none of them good. He might begin winding the warfare in Ukraine down, which might contain accepting that Russia had failed to attain most of its goals. He might try and rally the troops and the nation, however announce no main change of...