Russia invades Ukraine {2022-02-24} (Part 1)

[GreenWyvern]

A lot of experts on Russia and Putin agree that his decision to invade was totally irrational. He’s simply lost the plot. There can be no positive outcome for him.

See my post here:

Has Putin mentally deteriorated?

This thread is meant to be about Putin himself, rather than about the war in Ukraine. There are a couple of threads about that running already. I was completely wrong about Putin invading Ukraine – but then so were a lot of serious experts on Russia. I’ve been thinking about why that was. Excuse the long post.   From the NYT: In Moscow’s foreign policy establishment, where analysts overwhelmingly characterized Mr. Putin’s military buildup around Ukraine as an elaborate and astute bluff in …