He Has Good Reason to Worry
Back in February 27, 2022, I submitted a blog post entitled Putin Screws the Pooch. In it, I wrote:
I cannot help but think that Vladimir Putin has made a serious misstep in his assumptions regarding Ukraine’s willingness to abide by his thuggish behavior. The Russians made the same assumptions that Donald Rumsfeld and Vice President Dick Cheney made when we invaded Iraq in 2003: We were not in fact welcomed with flowers and candy, and, moreover, we are still there.
Now Putin is in a worse position politically than Nikita Khrushchev was in after the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962. Not only has Putin failed in his attempt to walk all over Ukraine, but he had to put down a quasi-coup by Yevgeny Prigozhin and his Wagner Group mercenaries.
When one is a totalitarian dictator, one cannot afford to look weak. And Vladimir Putin at this time looks a lot weaker than Khrushchev did in 1964 when Brezhnev and Kosygin replaced him as top dog of the Soviet Union.
And how can you be top dog when you’ve screwed the pooch like Putin has?
Tarnmoor 
I think it’s the W
Rather than President Putin looking weak, it is the W
Apparently somebody doesn’t want me to comment. But anyway, I’ll try once again. It is the Western leaders who were salivating at the thought of civil war in Russia who have been left twiddling their thumbs.
Huh?