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Idiom: Back into a corner
What a difference 50 days make.
On February 24th, Vladimir Putin was preparing victory parades for a puppet Ukrainian regime after running over the Ukrainian military and Zelenskyy government.
He thought the Ukrainians would be quickly backed into a corner and forced to surrender.
Sometimes things don’t go exactly as planned.
Like I said, what a difference 50 days make.
I want to ask Putin how it feels because now it’s the Ukrainians who have him backed so tightly into a corner that his ass is wedge-shaped.
When you are backed into a corner, you are forced into a challenging situation.
Ukraine is proving to be a country that doesn’t roll over easily.
The Russian capital ship Moskva now sits at the bottom of the Black Sea due to a Ukrainian missile attack.
Some of my students fail to see the significance of sinking one ship.
It’s yet another signal that Putin and the Russian military are backed into a corner.
The more equipment and soldiers the Russians lose in this war, the more imperative it becomes that they declare victory soon.
The Americans still have egg on their faces for the way they left Afghanistan, and the Russians will have even more if they fail to accomplish their goals in Ukraine.
The danger is that when someone, especially someone like Putin, is backed into a corner, you can’t predict what they will do.
Putin may go nuclear for real.
Sure, he may only use a tactical nuke instead of a strategic one, but a nuclear strike in Europe may only push him further into a corner if it causes NATO to become directly involved.
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