Y’know, people act like Putin is this “reawakening bear” with inexhaustible strength.
But he’s not. If Putin actually provokes the West into an armed response, he will be on the worse end of it, even if it is just a response from the EU, without the USA being involved.
Already he is having a big effect on NATO budgets, and politics, and is boosting the Reagan forces in the West and the United States.
Why he would be doing all this impotent saber rattling is puzzling, it only weakens him and strengthens us.
Putey is finding himself in the situation of trying to back out of the swamp while up to his A## in alligaotors. He does not have the money to play the Ukraine game and its not the 1970’s anymore. The world has moved on. Putin is learning a hard lesson.