3 Months In — Putin is Running Out of Options

Wes O'Donnell
5 min readMay 24, 2022

Three months into what was supposed to be a three-day special military operation to “de-nazify” Ukraine, UK’s defense ministry said Russia’s military campaign “has stalled on all fronts”.

Usually when someone starts a conversation with “I just want to manage expectations…” you know disappointment is about to follow.

When Putin had the grand idea to invade his sovereign neighbor, his military leadership should have started the conversation with ‘managed expectations’.

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Wes O'Donnell

Army & Air Force Veteran | Global Security guy at War is Boring, GEN, OneZero | Intel Forecaster | Law Student | TEDx Speaker | Pro-Democracy | Pro-Human Rights