What was he thinking. Putin must be one isolated fellow to make such a blunder. He will never take the Ukraine. Btw I’ve read too much Ostfront history to drop the “the”. Old habits.
Ukraine is starting to look a lot like Afghanistan was to him in 1983. Perhaps Putin thought he would avoid the same pitfalls that the Soviets ran into there, but behold, their economy is being destroyed and the morale of their troops is waning fast. Beware of the wounded bear!