US resists 'regime change' talk, but Putin knows how last czar died

Russian President Vladimir Putin could lose power if Ukraine’s counteroffensive continues, exuberant European officials and dismayed Russian imperialists are beginning to suspect, though U.S. officials hesitate to indulge speculation about “regime change” in the Kremlin.

“We live in an information society and things are changing, even as we are speaking, now actually,” a senior European official told the Washington Examiner. “So we don't know what could happen, we just need to be prepared, when the right moment comes, to take the right decision.”

Other Western officials regard Putin’s fall as...