Which, begs the question. What on earth were they thinking?
Which, begs the question. What on earth were they thinking?
My theory is that after decades of purging those who told him things he didn't want to hear, Putin's inner circle was comprised of sycophants who told him what he wanted to hear, not what he needed to hear. He genuinely thought the Ukrainian people would greet Russian troops as "liberators", just like W with the Iraq war. All tyrants end up divorced from reality sooner or later.