He also famously called for the storming of the capitol saying he'd join the fight. Instead went to watch his "fighters" on TV
Not too surprising despite all his fellow autocrat fawning over Putin, he knows he is next up or close. Romania next door will I think fight. I recall from my oil trading days that around 2015-2016 though Hungary produces some oil they import most and they made a big shift from Russian oil to Iraq. Possibly seeing this coming.
wWe certainly don’t want to find out. I actually think of we got into with Russia right now like head on Putin would be killed by his own people, probably his personal security force. He is looking real bad everywhere now, at home and all across the world. It sucks to be Putin right now. If he stops prosecuting this war then he is weak everywhere and people will question his fitness to lead. If he starts using thermobaric weapons or indiscriminately lobbing missiles that kill lots of civilians he risks western intervention. If he keeps throwing Russian dummy soldiers into the Ukrainians he is going to seem like he lost militarily. “Tooth to tail” he is really only working with about 70k soldiers and he decided to open up multiple fronts which is said somewhere before he attacked would be the most insecure strategy but high reward. Turns out he should’ve did phased attacks from the east moving west. And don’t think Russia has unlimited munitions and soldiers or provisions. These guys expected a quick turnaround. It’s not fun being Putin.
They're calling in reservists now. Georgia needs to Georgia so we can have ourselves a proper Arab Spring
Putin is obviously a dangerous psychopath and anyone who supported him or anyone who cozied up to him ( eg Trump ) should be serious rethinking their ideas. Lots of innocent people getting killed as men ( its always men ) play their pointless power games based on greed and trying to control others. I'm not in favour of the death penalty but when it comes to guys like Putin a bullet to the head seems it would be good for our planet.