Zelenskyy: “The enemy does not have a single chance in this people’s war”

Putin was a Colonel in the KGB... E.g. the CIA/FBI of the Soviet Union.

He was involved in state security, not part of the military.

He has presided over a number of much smaller, simmering conflicts with painfully small, isolated adversaries. Putin's Russia hasn't participated in any large wars since the Soviets left Afghanistan.

Ukraine being a much larger, more populous country with a smaller but reasonably modern military, relations with the west and right on the border of NATO members makes this different from the occupation of Chechnya or his role with allies like Syria.

(re)invading a country that enjoyed independence from Russian totalitarian system and where many still remember that life, and for him to expect/assume they would be passive was a huge gamble.

Really seems like he was expecting to get a Czechoslovakian style welcome, with conscripts peacefully parading through Kyiv and heralding some kind of Soviet Union 2.0.

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