So the West just sit around twiddling its thumbs out of fear
Exactly.
Although $10Billion in weaponry and worldwide sanctions is not sitting around and twiddling your thumbs.
And that "fear" is more caution than cowardice.
I have no idea what Vlad wants. Nor do I particularly care. Bombing the sh*t out of people to get what you want is very much out of fashion.
We want this war to end, but bombing the sh*t out of somebody else is not the civilized way to end it. It's more the end-of-civilization way to do it. We really don't want that. No matter how romantic it might sound.
Russia has f*cked up mightily. Putin knows it. What remains to be seen is what he's going to do to get out of this mess.
