(December 24, 2022 at 11:35 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:(December 24, 2022 at 10:59 am)Leonardo17 Wrote: I don’t see any of this as “tactics”. I don’t even listen to Putin on TV anymore. A rational man would be offering peace terms at this points. This man thinks he is going to win
Putin's painted himself into a corner: Russia is unable to win, and Putin cannot afford to lose.
And the US did our part in this by giving Ukraine a bunch of old weapons that were going to be decommissioned anyway, for less money that it would have cost to decommission them.