The jokers got a cornered, wild animal when Putin decided to start his little war of imperial aggression. The Japanese already knew the mistake they made in 1941.
I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve. –Isoroku Yamamoto
Pighrozyn knows it now, has for quite some time. But he continued on in hopes of what we don’t know, probably never will. Post-war rewards of some sort? Head count bonus? He’ll be falling out of a Belarusian window somewhere soon.
LATE UPDATE: Fell out of his own jet. Imagine that.