Ukraine or double down on mobilization efforts? i think he will clearly. he will have to double down. you ve seen what s happened in this war. he lost the battle to kyiv, the initial one. that must have been fairly painful. the second phase south and east hasn t made much headway at all during the past few weeks. either he ll have to scale down, extremely unlikely, or he must double down and then he must double down i think on war efforts, on the propaganda against the west, against nazis, against ukraine and double down against repression internally in russia in order to keep the situation under control. he is in the position long term and it can only escalate in order to try to get out. i suspect it s not just a show of fanfare for the west and his own people, but also pr exercise for his troops, no doubt.