Why Bamboozled Putin Is Struggling to Avenge Ukraine’s Sneak Attack
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Why Bamboozled Putin Is Struggling to Avenge Ukraine’s Sneak Attack
https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-bamboozled-vladimir-putin-is-struggling-to-avenge-ukraines-sneak-attack/
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Ever since Ukraine’s devastating drone attack on Russian strategic bombers, the Kremlin has been trying to figure out a fitting response.
President Vladimir Putin has to respond to save face. But while Russia has stepped up nightly drone and missile attacks at Ukrainian cities—framed as “revenge”—Putin has not been able to ease the sting of Russia’s lost aircraft.
Responding to a military disaster by causing a humanitarian disaster will do little to convince observers other than Trump that Russia’s strikes are in any way justifiable.
Part of the problem this time is that Russia was already in the middle of an escalation, launching ever more brutal drone and missile attacks on apartment blocks and other civilian targets in Ukraine in an apparent bid to soften the Ukrainians up for Trump’s “peace talks.”
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