[Skybird]

Putin is just a rabid street dog who has bitten into a piece of meat that doesn't belong to him, but which he desperately wants. In the meantime, it now is also a matter of personal survival for him. He cannot accept peace and retreat without losing his own life. The continuation of the war, active or frozen, is in his survival interest. We, and I too, have believed for twenty years that he is more complex and complicated. But a backyard thug is not complicated. Only brutal to individually different degrees. This one is extremely brutal. And there are possible successors to him that are even worse than he is.

The Russian assault on Ukraine is not just a war. Its the beginning of an even bigger desaster. The longer we refuse this perception, the worse it will become. For all Europe.

We must get ready for the worst. We must prepare, brace ourselves.

And everbody is refusing that. Instead: childish puppet-plays in the capitals of the Western world.