pcr thinks the putin isn't serious enough about the war and i agree; 

 

President Trump and NATO Have Declared War on Russia and Putin Is Oblivious

Paul Craig Roberts

John Helmer believes that Putin’s strategy of being toady to Trump and relying on Trump to solve the Ukraine conflict for him has failed and that Putin will have to abandon his naïveté for realism or be removed.  https://johnhelmer.net/the-nuclear-option/ 

Putin’s inability to understand that Russia is at war with the West and that his prevarication for 4.5 years has vastly widened the war and totally changed its character has created the opinion among Russia’s patriotic elements that “Putin is a lost cause.”

That has been my conclusion for some time.  Putin is still thinking and acting as if the conflict is limited to Donbas and that Russia is on the verge of winning as hardly any of Donbas remains in Ukrainian hands.  Putin recently told Trump that the Europeans are a war party because they don’t understand that Putin’s “Special Military Operation” has succeeded in clearing Donbas of Ukrainian forces. Putin mistakenly thinks that the war is over and all that remains is the settlement. Putin dismisses the increasingly effective attacks on the Russian motherland as “terrorist events.”

Putin’s extraordinary blindness to reality is difficult to understand.  The conflict is not a special military operation.  It is a war with the West that has moved far from the Donbas front line to deep within Russia with successful Ukrainian strikes guided by US and NATO targeting systems on Russian refining capability, fuel depots, airports, and civilians.  Putin is so out of it that he is immune to the humiliation that Russian patriots are experiencing from having to suffer increasing successful attacks on their homeland while their leader, advised by two Russian traitors Kirill Dmitriev and Elvira Nabiullina, relies on Trump to save the situation for Russia and for business deals for Russia’s oligarchs...........more..........