CNN Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown February 28, 2022 05:38:00
Miscalculated. i still can only hope that the ukrainians will be able to maintain their resistance, but i'm pretty confident that putin didn't expect to have so much trouble. not that he may have expected to be greeted as liberators, but i think he may have planned on a bit more support from russian-speaking ukrainians, those he tried to appeal though in the east particularly. but the ukrainians have really had eight years of focus on their contempt and hatred for russia, for the invasion in the east, for the annexation. and he created a lot of this on his own by his moves eight years ago, whi...