he s trying different tax to achieve this particular goal isn t surprising. it doesn t tell us that his goal, his goal is to obliterate plane and make it stopped existing as a nation. and to reestablish russia as a superpower, the world is not gonna give him this. ukraine is putting up a hell of a fight in the end russia has overwhelming military power and overwhelming resources. in addition, and nato is certainly not gonna agree to deal with vladimir putin as the other power, the other world power. he believes that this is the kind of world that he doesn t want to live in. and that s the kind of world that he is rattling ukraine you just mentioned that he doesn t believe ukraine exists, or he wants to step out ukrainian miss as a distinct thing. the president of united states refer to that as genocide the other day. and there s this complexity of
civilians. yeah, there s a phrase in the army that the enemy gets the vote. and that s exactly the loop of that. it does strike me that there s a question about what putin s mindset is, can he think clearly, busy rational, is he making calculation could fit the framework of mutually shared game theory. i found in slightly reassuring that the russian military, and putin s direction did assess at some point that this part isn t working, there was a rational calculation, irrational retreat from that goal into the south and the east. at least gave me some little sliver that this is not this is how a mad man works. it s not a mad man running this, there is a problem impossibly a mistaken asking on whether putin is rational. everyone is rational in some universe. the question is one of the universe in which putin is rational. and he s rational in the universe where the most important thing to do is for him to reestablish russia as a power at any cost. and part of doing that is oblitera