Ukraine: Was This Putin’s Plan All Along
I've always ignored the ridiculous attempts by the Western media to paint Putin as some comic book villain, it serves no purpose and is in fact dangerous to misrepresent one of the cleverest and savviest political animals of the modern era. You don't stay in charge of Russia this long by being an idiot. So I've been perplexed, why then did he get the invasion of Ukraine so wrong? Why did he not time a likely two month conflict closer to the US midterms to sow chaos in their economy and likely return a more favorable Republican house? Did he really underestimate the volume of international…
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