Vladimir Putin’s plans are falling to pieces. Slowly but surely, Russia is losing its war against Ukraine. At the same time, it is losing nearly all of its most key political and economic allies, and losing a decent chunk of the market for its energy exports, which serve as the backbone of the Russian economy. Euractive has called Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine a “profound miscalculation” and states that “at the political level, Putin is trying to influence the UN agenda but has succeeded in being little more…