Russia and Ukraine flashpoint

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EpicRandy said:

I saw this article from the Kyiv independent citing Forbes estimating the cost of Russian strikes on Oct 10 to be between $400 and $700 million. This level of spending to target only civilian and civilian infrastructure which provide absolutely zero opportunity on the battlefield can only be described as a terrorist act. It's a real shame that anyone in the G7 as yet to officially recognize Russia as such. A shame that Estonia, which do share a border with Russia, as more 'balls' then the US, France, Germany, Italy, UK, Canada and Japan. 

Still this will only strengthen Ukrainian solidarity and troops moral, boost international support and add another nail in the coffin of Russia relations with ally such as China.

This means either :

Putin fully comprehend this and it means he knows he is losing and can't do anything about it so he throw a tamper tantrum lashing out a everything he can before he cannot anymore.

or

Putin really thinks those attacks further his goal, which only suggest he has completely loss touch with reality.

Or this was made to appease the hardliners.

Putin is in an increasingly difficult position at home, with moral faltering, anti-war sentiment rising and hardliners wanting to use even more extreme measures, as in throwing nukes at Ukraine and ultimately at it's supporters. Putin backed himself into a corner with no easy way out, and the only way to go from here for him is forward and continuing the war if he wants to keep staying in power.

If the hardliners would overthrow him, it could all go downhill from there very fast. The best that could happen is that protests would arise so strongly that Putin and the hardliners would get thrown out for a more democratic leader - but even then, I'm not sure they'd accept giving back the Krim region to Ukraine, so fighting may very well continue even if this happens.