My take: Putin knows he's losing.

[Baitball Blogger]

And just like Zelensky predicted, he's going to take land, reinforce his military position and come back in a few years to attack from the vantage of the new ground.

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. The fucking prick wouldn't have done a goddamn thing if Hillary Clinton had been in office in 2016

That little fucking coward Putin would have never dared cross her😡

[Bluetus]

2. Well, he did take Crimea and suffered no consequences

[eppur_se_muova]

3. For a long time, I have believed that most terrorists know they have already lost. That's why they become terrorists.

"Funadmentalists" of one stripe or another especially must know that they cannot fight off all of modernity, and the continuing process of change which affects all societies, no matter how much they try to isolate themselves. With defeat inevitable, all they can really hope for is to do some damage to those they perceive as their enemies before they themselves vanish from history.

Can't win the fight ? Bloody your opponent's nose so he'll remember you -- a pretty poor trade for a lifetime's zealotry to "the cause".

[Baitball Blogger]

5. His people became disposable hamburger meat to achieve his goals.

He's a psychopath.

[eppur_se_muova]

6. Legal cannon fodder. nt

[Lovie777]

4. Yea.................

but Putin is still killing innocent Ukrainians, including children and feels no pain.

He is still sending soldiers for slaughter including NK and from other countries and feels no pain.

Stealing and destroying lands.