You really think Putin expected to be engaged in a never ending war on it's own border with Ukrainian troops shooting Patriot missiles and driving Abrams tanks?? 🤣🤣
Hell No... He saw how easy it was to take Crimea, watched the Jan 6 attack, the debacle of a withdrawal from Afghanistan and thought the time was right to make his move with a weakened/divided United States.
He thought he'd roll in there and have a Putin Puppet in place within 2 weeks.
He totally underestimated Biden, NATO, Zelenskyy, and the will of the Ukrainian people to have a future democracy in line with Europe and the U.S.
Putin has demonstrated that his Russian army is a paper tiger. Russia's standing in the world is dog sh** and he has no other choice now but to keep this disaster of a war going till someone puts a bullet in his brain.
He totally underestimated the architect of the Afghanistan disaster? Lol.