Since early last year, I’ve often wondered why Putin just didn’t take this guy out, martyr or not, and accelerate and end the invasion. He quickly learned that this phoney would drain our treasury and he need only to sit back and let it happen. Well played, Putin.
Precisely. Putin is spending us into oblivion by remote control. And Slow Joe isn’t capable of telling Zelensky “no”.
“He [Putin] quickly learned that this phoney would drain our treasury and he need only to sit back and let it happen.”
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A strategy that may be exceeding Putin’s wildest dreams and designs. But then again perhaps not if he was counting on Biden’s financial attachments to Ukraine to pay off in a big way, which is what’s happening.