No need for a translation. We've been producing these articles since the war started. They couldn't bother to churn out more than three sentences for the length of the article. Barely a paragraph.

"Let's see Donald Trump Vladimir Putin wriggle his way out of this one" is just the mantra western media cranks out when there's nothing exciting to report. Putin has been on the verge of defeat and ignominious removal from office going back to Maiden. He'll be on the verge of defeat for the next twenty years, at this rate.

This is all opinion and I may be misinformed, so take it with a grain of salt.

It is really sad when you think about how the beginning of the new millennium seemed an optimistic time in Russia when the economy was starting to pick up—albeit mostly in the wealthier western cities—but then Crimea happens and the recovery stalls under global sanctions. He should've got the message at that point, but no. He's such a cold warrior. He can't see any way for Russia to grow other than through conquest and putting in puppet governments everywhere.

And the worst part is now, he has no incentive to end this war. It's the only thing that's keeping him alive. Ending it would be political suicide, and failed leaders tend to have a very short life expectancy. So he's all paranoid and bunkered up. Actually, not even paranoid. He really does have reason to fear for his life.

I guess we ordinary Joes (and Jills) can't understand what's in the heads of the so-called world leaders like Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, and others. Not because they are so bright (I doubt they even reach the average), but because they have been surrounding themselves for decades with yay sayers only, while everyone with even a slightly different opinion has long (been?) gone. They completely lost touch with the world in my opinion.

He’s just a continuation of the Tsar’s expansionist policy as well as treating the population as disposable. I don’t know if that makes him the dumbest, Russia has had some pretty horrendous leaders.

Maybe he didn't know that the hardest part of a three-day special military operation are the first few years.

I wonder what dickhead will replace him.

thats why hes never near any windows. always in a compound, or a bunker.

Trouble with that is they inherit a bunch of propagandized people with that territory, that’s no good for their elections.

Succesfull failure

Yeah, this is a nothing article.

he might personally lose...

His head or the integrity of his rectal wall. It would be amazing if conservatives worldwide were forced to watch Putin being slowly ritually impaled with shushes for the his sputtering and having Pussy Riot play Girls just Wanna have Fun or something but medical science was used to help keep him alive.

Striking targets DEEP in Russian territory over and over doesn't feel like "desperation" to me but maybe the writer is a hack.