Unprovoked war, he could not achieve his objectives, and re-set the strategy irobjectives and let s take the donbas and more land, connecting russia. and people gung-ho about russian s campaign to annihilate the ukrainian military are basically arguing they don t have enough troop, that the troops they have do not have the military capability to achieve these objectives. so i m very curious to know what putin thinks he can achieve. and reading that piece, what i took from it is, yes, he believes his own propaganda. he thinks he s winning when he s losing. right. if you re in the west, you re thinking that is quite beneficial because if we keep arming ukraine, if they press this fight, i mean i think lloyd austin, the defense secretary said, we want to help them win and help them degrade the russian military to such an ex tent they cannot conduct an operation like this again. to weaken russia. and there are fights beyond the