“I just listened to the whole speech. He says the West has threatened Russia with nukes and he will not take the use off the table if the West uses Ukraine to attack inside territorial Russia.”
So now Putin is claiming Ukraine is the aggressor and wants to invade Russia? Doesn’t sound like a guy who thinks he’s winning.
The US has always wanted to invade Russia. Vice versa. Why do you think McCain, Graham and a host of other Senators would go over there and talk with military trying to get Ukrainians to do just that? For Pete’s sake, they are even on video meeting and talking to them.
There has been an obvious NATO escalation and more NATO involvement and that is what spurred this.