03-08-2022, 03:29 PM
(03-07-2022, 11:46 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: Putin is a greedy a$$hole, a fact which President Biden knows well because he actually reads the President's Daily Briefing. Putin is also a vindictive bastard under a thin veneerBiden is a greedy a$$hole too. The Liberals are all greedy a$$holes. I'm glad that you're going to end being stuck living/dying under them one way or another because you deserve to go out that way. You all deserve it.
of civility and an extreme narcissist. With those vices well known, a wise leader can exploit those to the fullest when necessary. Trump thought he was doing well when both were in a contest of mutual flattery. That was impossible with Obama. You may be right about the anger. Putin calculated based on army sizes that Ukraine would be easy to take, perhaps setting up a pliable puppet as head of a national entity of shaky sovereignty.
It seems not to be working. Putin's one ally in Europe, Belarus, is shakier than is convenient for him. Mass rallies have occurred in Russia calling for an end to a war that does the Russian people no good. Martial glory isn't as much of a public appeal as it might have been in 1914. Have you ever read All Quiet on the Western Front? Things went very bad very fast, you should know.