I sure don’t seem to have called that right. I will simply speculate that, in the end, Putin’s utter and complete contempt for Biden–and to be sure, the Europeans and the Ukrainian military– won out. He is also a gambler, and gambler’s take calculated risks. Perhaps he is secretly desperate, for reasons I don’t know.
Ultimately, why this is worth it to him at this moment, I have no idea. I have not studied the history, other than to recollect things like the Holodomor, and that the Ukraine suffered badly under both the Soviets and the Nazis.
Maybe the Ukraine is filled with the spirits of the people who made the word Slave out of Slav. Maybe Cuba is filled with reincarnated cannibals. I do wonder sometimes if nations suffer because of the sins of their past, and if it is not the spirits of those people themselves, enduring karmic consequences.
I don’t know this universe works, or if anyone can be said to “deserve” anything. I don’t even know how good or bad the government of the Ukraine is at this moment.
I just talk, and seem to be mostly forgiven for it, and sometimes even encouraged.