"The most dangerous fool in the world": Putin can neither lose nor win the war - nyt

According to Thomas Friedman's Pulitzer Prize winner, the Kremlin launched a war without B. 's plan B. The Russian leader was convinced that he would be able to capture the Ukrainian capital, but in a year Putin was driven into a corner. The President of the Russian Federation has become the "most dangerous fool in the world" that can neither win Ukraine, lose nor to stop. About it reports NYT on May 10.

The author of the material was Columnist and three -time laureate of the Pulitzer Prize Thomas Friedman. He writes that the Kremlin believed in his plan for the rapid capture of Ukraine, so they did not even think about the preparation of the plan B. It makes the war that the Russian Federation began, one of the most non -free in history.

Volodymyr Putin was expecting to put his "puppet government" in Kiev for a short time, but a year later a situation came when "he cannot win, cannot lose and cannot stop. " Now that there is no spare strategy, Russia has begun to resort to shelling of peaceful cities of Ukraine, as well as before the war on exhaustion. In this way, they want to maintain control of the captured territories that "can be sold to the Russian people as a great victory. " "Plan B is to hide that plan A failed.

If this military operation was called, it would be called" Operation "Save My Face. " This makes this war one of the most unhealthy in the present - the president of one country destroys the civilian infrastructure of another country until there is a sufficient cover for him to hide the fact that he was a great fool, " - said in the column.