re: #337 No Malarkey!
This doesn’t look like an army that will be able to engage in a block by block battle to take Kyiv. Which means Putin will have to turn it into rubble with artillery and aerial and missile strikes.
if ukraine is ostensibly a part of russia, this is unthinkable to do to your own people.
if ukraine is not a part of russia, this is unthinkable to do to a non aggressor.
it’s getting close to a james bond level sociopath megalomaniac evil super-villain