it is as if Lefties handed Russia bits of Ukraine - 1st Obama/Crimea, then JoeyBoy with his comment about “minor incursion” inviting Russian territorial expansion
along with impeding Ukraine’s response by delaying our aid . now who is in bed with the Russians???
Somewhere about 18 month into Covid....with Putin cutting off visitation by the bulk of ‘insiders’...I think Putin got some mindset...could we take Ukraine in 30 days?
He turned to FSB (former KGB)...instead of his military, and asked for a plan/strategy. They probably thought it was a ‘joke’...giving him some analysis, and drafted a general invasion strategy.
One key element that was missed...was the anti-tank weapons that the US/UK/NATO had provided. The invasion strategy required Putin’s ‘strength’ (in tank warfare) to get the bulk of results. That obviously failed.
Rumor is that the top two FSB guys who handled the invasion plan....were detained, and are still in some form of custody.
The key point where I knew the war was unwinnable for Putin? About four weeks into it...a Ukraine Army unit walked up to a point on paved road, and here were two Russian tanks abandoned (out-of-fuel)...just sitting there. The Ukrainians had taken the anti-tank-weapons to the next level...hitting fuel-tankers. Without tank warfare, the Russians were screwed.
Putin might go softer if leftist America was banned from fomenting coups against elected pro-Russian governments.
“Here are 53 times Trump said he’d end Ukraine war within 24 hours or before taking office”
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/25/politics/fact-check-trump-ukraine-war/index.html
Putin went in because the Biden regime teased NATO membership for Ukraine. Trump, correctly, has said that in the past.
Putin’s goal wasn’t to take the whole of Ukraine. He didn’t have to. All he had to do was sit back and watch the United States destroy its economy and deplete its own weapons stockpiles without having to do much at all.