Just drive straight to the capital and execute the government, everyone else loves us, he said.
I'll even send an unsupported load of paramilitary police straight to Kyiv in trucks to prove it, he said.
The grateful citizens of Ukraine will greet you with flowers and beaver-pelts, he said.
Regime-change, 3 days, maybe a week, tops, it'll be easy, he said...
Later claiming Russia was actually fighting NATO and the US may (or may not) have been worthwhile political propaganda, (parroted by the stooges and 'Tokyo Roses' in here) but it sure as hell won't have helped already shaky troop morale.
The Red Army has folded. Turns out, it is largely unfit for purpose. There's no quick-fix for it.
His Soviet-esque, klepto-regime is tottering and the recent defeats, retreats, mutinies and desertions are hurting him badly. The only thing holding him up is the enormous praetorian guard he created.
The Russian media commentariat is dissolving into absurd contradictions and bizarre ranting and counter-ranting now that its initial story has come completely unstuck.
