re: #265 Targetpractice

My guess is that his military leaders gave him an overly-optimistic picture of what a war in Ukraine would look like. .. It’s a now-or-never, go-big-or-go-home moment.

I agree that Putin probably had some bum intel, but he is too much of a cold and calculating bastard not to have contingencies in place. Do not mean to IMPLY that he is going to succeed, but let us not misunderestimilate him just yet, we are still in the opening stages of a long game for Putin.

He is in it too deep not to go through with it. Going home is not an option.