More nightmarish for Putin's Russia than the Ukrainian counteroffensive is its expectation. Fear, anxiety, stress, panic shake the bunker and the Kremlin. Obscene laws are passed, nuts are tightened until they break and burst, forces are raised to repress Russian people, hysterical commentators spew idiotic nonsense and bullshit.
If I were asked, I would delay this counter-offensive and demonstrate daily how I am accumulating strength and means for it.
Thus Putin will only continue to intensify his power madness; crazy rumors will be floating around Russia; the authorities will wonder how to further humiliate Russian people; chaos and anarchy in economics and finance will increase; the ruble will continue to fall; queues in front of exchange offices will turn into rallies of desperate discontent. And from the smallest spark a flame can break out; and the smallest drop may overflow the cup; and the smallest pebble can overturn the car; and the smallest grain of sand can cause the sand pile to collapse.
Putin will fall victim not to a huge cataclysm, but to something small, insignificant, imperceptible, at first glance negligible, which will topple the entire rotten dictatorial pyramid of his medieval, misanthropic, sociopathic and paranoid power...

04/13/2023