I think Putin is playing chess with the world and is winning. He smells weakness in the Biden administration as many pawns have fallen due to miscalculations in Afghanistan and is moving his knights near Ukraine. I’m not sure that he is going to invade this “sovereign nation” just see what the world will give him not to. All of a sudden certain sanctions might be lifted in the coming months and large supplies of Russian oil might be piped into the U.S because Biden has the weaker hand and will give almost anything to stop a Ukraine invasion. Putin smells victory with his new ally on the board Xi Jinping and they’re playing us for all it’s worth.