Thanks for your kind words. My wife’s home town is Nikolaev, an ex-Soviet military port on the Black Sea, so of strategic significance. It has thus come under sustained bombing and invasion. Obviously there is the fog of war at the moment. But anecdote is that some of the Russian troops appear to be conscripts and not professional soldiers. Tanks and military equipment are running out of fuel and their occupants are fleeing. The tanks etc are then being disabled by the general public. Shops and fuel stations are empty, people having stockpiled essentials before the invasion began. So yes, Russia has the military strength to overthrow the government, but its efforts to date have been abysmal. As I say, it appears they will have to use much greater firepower etc to get anywhere. That will entail a lot more death and destruction, and hence greater condemnation in the West, and hopefully within Russia. Putin is not the kind of character to back down, however, hence he has to be overthrown internally.
