NP: On the Ukraine thread

[Mark Kohut]

" The United States has picked up intelligence that Russia is discussing
next Wednesday as the target date for the start of military action,
officials said, acknowledging the possibility that mentioning a particular
date could be part of a Russian disinformation effort."----NYT today

Hardly following the developments, just "what I gather from [the]
coincidence"--Bobbi D--- of my mainstream news",  I'm speculating this
after Putin has now gone all in:
This is fully plagiarized from some talking "expert" but my judgmental
choice over the other taking head experts I've heard: Putin will invade
now, otherwise the 'looking weak' at home and internationally raises its
engorged prick head. He will try a kind of blitzkrieg to Kyiv, encircle it,
show the Ukrainians and the world he could take it at will and then retreat
back home. He can strategically lose whatever soldiers that takes; he can
'afford' it with his recent oil war chest and can even suffer the economic
loss his ruble is already taking ....for a short while. And he knows he
can't occupy the country since too costly.

Since some have been wrong about all aspects of this situation since it
started, I thought I would jump in, hoping I'm wrong, too. But not wrong
because Putin goes all into the invasion and more people are killed than in
the scenario above. And that he does occupy and take over a sovereign
country. International war criminal then as well as an assassin of contrary
individuals in his own country and on foreign soil.