re: #276 Targetpractice

And it’s fair to feel that way, but I can’t help but feel that the idea of Putin as the skilled chessmaster who’s playing a long game is too much like the same views of Trump as a skilled conman whose every move was part of a grander scheme. We certainly learned that the latter wasn’t true, and so far nothing about Winter War 2.0 has led me to believe that Vlad went into this with anything but massive overconfidence and no real plan if things went to shit in a hurry.

Not a tactician, but dropping paratroopers into a city you don’t control reeks of desperation to me.