The war has taken a new turn. Putin is now seeking vindicative destruction of as much as he can in Ukraine. He sees Mother Russia is now on life support and may not actually survive his misguided efforts. Thus he is getting in as many destructive licks as he can while he can.
The Russian economy must be destroyed and then rebuilt by those who can take a slice off the top for Ukranian reparations. EXXON, Shell, Total, and BP will combine to form a consortium to run the whole Russian oil business and take 15% of the revenue to rebuild Ukraine.
Oh....... and then there are the rumors. Putin has or is maybe recurring from thyroid cancer. He is turning 70. He sees the mortality handwriting on the wall
Putin was great in his first 10 years of presidency. The Russian economy boomed. Then 10 years after that, the economy stagnated due to corruption. So it was underachieving. But Russia can live with that. Now Putin declared war with a military who was not ready to fight? This is looking like Russo-Japanese War. A humiliating defeat for Russia.
Since when is it Ameica's job to destroy the Russian economy, so a backwater country like Ukraine can collect "reparations", and a bunch of multi-national corporations can make more money? Funny how that looks like it came straight out of some 'globalist' playbook, somewhere.
But let's get 'er done! Just make a quick 911 call to "Globo Robo Cops" (US military), line up another $5-$10 trillion bucks of American taxpayers' money, and put America into another overseas conflict, where the US has even fewer vital interests at stake than our last several wars. I'm sure destroying the Russian economy will benefit a whole boat-load of Americans outside the Beltway... \sarc