some way to get out or get way further in. that s what everybody thought he was going to do today and then he did not do that. he gave a standard putin talking points speech. including all the weird stuff about how ukraine was going to attack russia. really? and so this was a defensive invasion. and the war is going great. and everybodyng else but him is nazi. a standard weird con spear toral blather. he announced nothing new at all. not even weird insane backwards justification for what he said. why didn t he make the dog bark today? hackers who got the tv stations, in russia, and braved dissident journalists and regulard russi people, know that this would haveop been the day for putin, this day is all the symbolism he wants for this war, he spent so much time trying to make this war seem like some variation on world lwar, two when he finall gets to w the day, that