Maybe Putin is moving towards an American WWII style bombing bombing campaign to bring down the latest Nazi regime. That seems to be the pressure being applied on him by the Russian public to do that.
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Pressure on Putin to escalate.
That video of Russian state TV was BEFORE the Russian Troops fled Kharhiv Oblast and gave up 1,000 square miles of territory they had held for the last 6 months.
The state TV talking heads were pretty bummed out last time we saw them.