Lawrence Freedman: “We’re left considering the psychology of the person who introduced this catastrophic journey and will have to now make a decision whether or not to name it off with no matter face-saving claims he can muster. We ponder whether when he claims his struggle plan is on time table and is assembly its objectives is a continuation of his previous delusions, since the sycophants round him don’t understand how to inform him the reality, or as a result of he does now not understand how to confess to the Russian other folks how badly he has allow them to down, particularly after he has long gone to excessive lengths to cover the reality from them.”
“He’s now attractive in additional conversations with world leaders, the newest being with Israeli top Minister Naftali Bennett, so most likely he’s beginning to search for a diplomatic method out.”
“It’s conceivable to slip clear of defeat via claiming victory towards extra life like objectives. In any case Saddam Hussein led Iraq into two disastrous wars – when he invaded Iran in 1980 and seized Kuwait a decade later. On the finish of each, with not anything to turn for the entire consequential demise and destruction, he nevertheless claimed victory as a result of one way or the other, he had for my part controlled to live on in energy. As Putin is pressured to transport clear of his most goals will that minimal one additionally come to be his precedence?”
