> What Putin gains with expansion
Personal survival. He needed a war to justify the dismantling of the remaining democratic institutions. That the war lasts plays in his personal interests also.
P.S. Don't forget that he is 73 years old.
Personal survival. He needed a war to justify the dismantling of the remaining democratic institutions. That the war lasts plays in his personal interests also.
P.S. Don't forget that he is 73 years old.
Putin been killing civilians back from 2001. This diagram cleary shows that together with propaganda machine you can drastically shift population opinion https://cdn.statcdn.com/Infographic/images/normal/28383.jpeg.
Simply, they underestimate how much Ukraine is able to resist.