Russia Ukraine war, page-2485

You may be paranoid -- I don't see that at all. Putin is level headed as usual, and the generals -- only a psychopath would be looking delighted at the prospect of having to increase the level of violence due to the nature of Nato lethal weapons being deployed by the Ukrainians.
In the real world, real generals are not usually happy to see violence on the scale of actual war, only the armchair generals on HC get that opportunity.