5 Reasons Why Putin Thought He Could Successfully Invade Ukraine
5 min readJul 20, 2022
As the Russo-Ukraine War drags on, I keep coming back to what was happening inside Putin’s mind that convinced him he could be successful at regime change in Kyiv.
How could the [self-proclaimed] chess master and “brilliant” architect of the new Russian empire make such a massive geopolitical blunder?
