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How Vladimir Putin got himself into a strategic and political dead end

2022-03-02T20:19:06.519Z


ANALYSIS – The Kremlin's “great strategist” made a major mistake by launching an assault on Ukraine. An unpredictable and extremely dangerous period begins.


A week after launching his tanks and planes to attack Ukraine, Vladimir Putin finds himself plunged into a strategic, political and personal disaster that he himself orchestrated.

A cul-de-sac.

Because the supposed "strategist" was wrong all along the line.

On the Ukrainian nation, to which

"he never understood anything"

and who will fight it step by step, rightly recalled the star journalist of Ukrainian television Dimitri Gordon on the Russian radio Echo of Moscow (closed on Tuesday by order of the Kremlin).

On the Ukrainian army, which, since the annexation of Crimea in 2014, has become more professional, even if it remains a military David facing the Russian Goliath.

And finally on the West, seen in the Kremlin as a bunch of chickens but which presented a united front in the test and responded to Moscow's aggression with massive political support for Kiev and a flurry of sanctions which will strangle the Putin's Russia.

Even Xi's China, which abstained from the UN...

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Source: lefigaro

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