Putin’s Approach Makes Sense If His Primary Goal Is Not Victory Over Ukraine But Rather Inflicting Suffering On Everyone – OpEd

Putin’s approach in Ukraine and more generally doesn’t appear to make much sense, Dmitry Akhtyrsky says, unless one assumes that his goal is “the maximization of suffering not of the Ukrainians, the Europeans or the Americans but more generally of all people and all living things.”

If one makes that assumption, the...