You think he’ll stop after claiming the areas which are populated by mainly ethnic Russians? I don’t.
He laid out a plan in a dissertation after the CCCP fell which amounted to his version of MAGA, and he’s completed a fair number of steps apparently. He is a brilliant, proud KGB bastard. Those guys don’t stop. They might pause for awhile, long enough for you to think it’s over, but not stop.
“You think he’ll stop after claiming the areas which are populated by mainly ethnic Russians? I don’t.....He is a brilliant, proud KGB...”
We just disagree. Time will tell. He told the U.S. and Europe to stop the NATO crap that has crept to his front door since the 1990s, after being promised they would not expand after the break-up of the USSR. They dismissed his most important request totally out of hand and claimed it would never happen.
All he needs to do is finish off Kiev today or tomorrow and protect the eastern part of the country. He then negotiates, from a position of strength, a settlement agreement with what is left of the corrupt country of Ukraine. He is smart enough to stay out of the western part of the country.
I’m not sure I would call him a bastard. I would call him very smart, as you did, and someone who is making a stand for his country and his people — something not happening here!
Don’t forget this all started back in 2014 when Obama and the deep state launched a color revolution to topple the existing Ukrainian government. Now the chickens have come home to roost.