Its almost like Putin, born and raised in the Cold War, and a Cold War counter-spy member of the KGB in the 1980's, fully understood how to kill a nation with a proxy war having watched it happen to the Soviet Union with Afghanistan.

Ukrainians are Cossacks and Tartars, both known for their bravery and boldness in war, but also their stupid-aggressiveness that leaves them easy to bait with the right strategic maneuvers.

That and the west is starting to seriously feel the pain of bankrolling AND fully supplying Ukraine's belligerent, aggressive war Ukraine started. So Putin is doing a strategic "retreat" giving Ukraine a chance to charge in declare a few "wins" so the West will then see "hope" and double down on the shipments bankrupting themselves further. It will also boost sagging Ukrainian morale so they will keep fighting instead of negotiate.

And he fully knows Western digbats will ship Ukraine all their cash reserves, all their possible debt load, and most of their fuel because they are convinced they can repeat Afghanistan vs the Soviet Union in Ukraine. Russia will then do nothing, ship no oil nor resources forcing the USA to fully support BOTH Europe and China, bleeding itself of every possible resource until it keels over. And exploit all of it to end the EU and the Biden Regime, forcing the west into system collapse to ensure western people revolt, thus meeting Putin's goal for Western EU/US regime change, or its economy comes to a hard stop and the West as we know it ceases to exist. At which point Putin will have command of the Eurasian continent, and Alliance with Russia will be the ruin's of the Eurozone's only hope for survival.

Its almost like Putin, born and raised in the Cold War, and a Cold War counter-spy member of the KGB in the 1980's, fully understood how to kill a nation with a proxy war having watched it happen to the Soviet Union with Afghanistan.

Ukrainians are Cossacks and Tartars, both known for their bravery and boldness in war, but also their stupid-aggressiveness that leaves them easy to bait with the right strategic maneuvers.

That and the west is starting to seriously feel the pain of bankrolling AND fully supplying Ukraine's belligerent, aggressive war Ukraine started. So Putin is giving Ukraine a change to charge in declare a few "wins" so the West will then see "hope" and double down on the shipments bankrupting themselves further.

And he fully knows they will ship Ukraine all their cash reserves, all thier possible debt load, and most of their fuel. Russia will then exploit all of it to end the EU and the Biden Regime, forcing the west into system collapse to ensure western people revolt, thus meeting Putin's goal for Western EU/US regime change, or its economy comes to a hard stop and the West as we know it ceases to exist.