Chris

Nothing here is said or done by accident.

The USA is now spending the entire military budget of a mid-sized country on Ukraine. The UK is encouraging Ukraine to go after Donbas and Crimea. Poland has got the nod to transfer the sort of kit previously seen as too inflammatory for a country that might have found itself sharing a border with Russia had things gone sideways for Zelensky.

The mood music says NATO thinks Russia is a busted flush that can be brought to heel, and that there are enough sane people around Putin whose sense of self preservation will eventually compel them to replace him rather than obey him.