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brush

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6. Exactly. Putin miscalculated big time and overestimated his...

Reply to Buckeyeblue (Reply #2)

Wed Apr 6, 2022, 08:52 AM

Apr 2022

rotten army. NATO through its support of Ukraine with weapons has put a stop to Putin's dreams and he knows it by now. He's just trying to find a way out...and it looks like his shift of forces to the east/Dunbas is what he wants to settle for and declare victory as if it was what he was after all along.

We'll see what happens but I think Putin knows his plans for future conquests will not work. Just the opposite as he's strengthened NATO.

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Best insight into Putin yet - Fareed Zakharai interview with Russian ex-oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsk [View all] dwayneb Apr 2022 OP

This is not the only such reading of Putin. I've been seeing.. . TreasonousBastard Apr 2022 #1

Yes that's true dwayneb Apr 2022 #3

I wonder what plan B is since plan A hasn't worked Buckeyeblue Apr 2022 #2

When your Plan A is a three day Sherman A1 Apr 2022 #4

Next steps - bringing in foreign fighters; help from China? dwayneb Apr 2022 #5

That Doesn't Seem To Be Going So Well smb Apr 2022 #13

Exactly. Putin miscalculated big time and overestimated his... brush Apr 2022 #6

Putin has the great equalizer dwayneb Apr 2022 #8

I agree that he's a bit cray-cray. Biden/NATO has called his bluff though. brush Apr 2022 #9

+1, attack Ukraine from West Russia ... Bout it uponit7771 Apr 2022 #7

Plan B is "keep throwing troops into the meat grinder" and try to use numbers... JHB Apr 2022 #11

A response of hit and leave. The Jungle 1 Apr 2022 #10

If the Ukraine situation has shown anything, it is that additional attempts by wanda4rafi Apr 2022 #12

Another person with insight into Putin Chautauquas Apr 2022 #14