…but the U.S. tables are now turned.
“In 2022, Russian president Vladimir Putin called Russian citizens who are against the invasion of Ukraine as fifth columnists and “national traitors.”[45]
This is the critically important miscalculation Pootin failed to account for. The fact citizenry are unhappy about the war is expected. That it now amounts to any number of internal struggles is telling.
There is an outside chance his invasion would have succeeded at least initially, without western support to Ukraine. Lack of U.S. intervention, either indirectly through inaction, or directly through Trump was lost in 2020. Now we have some business to finish at home.
