🧵 This from Fiona Hill is very interesting: “We don’t know how good [Putin’s] intel is. & in some cases, we think it might not be great, because he certainly hasn’t read the mood in Ukraine as well as you might have thought.” nytimes.com/2022/02/18/us/… 
“He didn’t probably anticipate the Western resolve that he’s got in the form of NATO & European unity, but we don’t know what people are telling him.
People may be spinning to him that he’s done a great job — you know, that we’re all capitulating…” nytimes.com/2022/02/18/us/…
People may be spinning to him that he’s done a great job — you know, that we’re all capitulating…” nytimes.com/2022/02/18/us/…
Hill also disagrees with Zelenskyy and some Congressional GOP that the US should impose new sanctions now before a possible further incursion the West is still trying to deter
Hill hears Putin seems more isolated and embittered recently. she wonders if it is related to covid. (The Finnish president, who is apparently a longtime Putin interlocutor, recently said something similar) nytimes.com/2022/02/13/wor… nytimes.com/2022/02/18/us/…
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