He thought Biden would roll over, NATO would choose cheap gas and it would be a giant Crimea land grab. Biden is a senile old man that screwed up the Afghan withdrawal but he's just smart enough to know that appeasement never works with tyrants. Two different things can both be true at once.He totally underestimated the architect of the Afghanistan disaster? Lol.
Dumbazz Putin bit off more than he could chew and united NATO like no other time since the cold war period.
He F'd up.