MSNBC Andrea Mitchell Reports March 1, 2022 17:28:00
This a man who's prided himself on emotional control and showed strong flashes of anger parent for everyone to see. the isolation piece is important. not just physical isolation. this is not a man whose underlings bring him the truth or bad news. it's nigh sense that he thought he would be greeted in parts of ukraine as a liberator. and the ukrainian resistance would collapse and zelenskyy would flee and he would be in control of kyiv. i don't think we should fall into the trap of assuming that putin today would make the same decision he would have made five or ten or fifteen years ago. a lot ...