This right here☝..when you see how quickly all ya ends can disappear and an entire country's economy can basically disappear overnight, you gotta make moves to look like "the good guys" so the next time around they can be like "buhmember when we stepped in on Russia's bullshit???"
My guess is that it's the bolded. Everybody around him is losing major loot. Even he's losing money. The people are losing money. Putin doesn't want to show he's weak but doesn't realize just how weak he's showing himself to be. He ain't out on the streets among his troops, but Zelenskyy is, and it shows him to be the stronger, braver man to the people.
Right now Putin looks like a self-absorbed despot that doesn't give a shit about his people and that's precisely the catalyst needed for a revolt. We saw what happened to the last one like that once the people got a hold of him:
I think someone was saying something about this earlier
Just a note.
Funny how when they Russian they Oligarchs but when they Americans theyre just Billionaires
man wtf is this 12 minute shit about summary or sometbing
Honorary?Taekwondo withdraws Putin honorary black belt
World Taekwondo announced it had withdrawn Vladimir Putin's honorary black belt, saying the "brutal attacks on innocent lives" violate the sport's values.www.espn.com