And I think the answer is that he has to account for a war that he preempted and started that was designed to take all of Ukraine by decapitating Kyiv in February of 2022. So, I think what Vladimir Putin thinks is that he’s going to continue the war; continue the terror campaign; get greater concessions from the Europeans, the Americans, and the Ukrainians; and move the battle lines a little bit to the West. And then I would resume natural gas and oil shipments to Europe, I would open the economy back up, and I would tell the Russian people what you did.
Author: Victor Davis Hanson
Published at: 2025-06-02 21:22:12
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