The Cornered Rat

What will Putin do next?

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One thing is certain: no one could possibly have predicted the present situation in Ukraine. Prior to the Russian invasion, naïve, gullible, and endlessly complacent Westerners assumed Putin was assembling 190,000 men and materiel on three sides of Ukraine merely to threaten rather than invade — even as Western intelligence sources made it crystal-clear that the decision to invade Ukraine had…