Putin's Nuclear Retaliation Is Getting Away With an Extraordinary Sum

Putin thought that this would be a walkover and that the Ukrainians would fold rather like the Afghan government army folders last year. Even although they have significant superiority, especially in the air, the Russians have sustained astonishingly heavy casualties. The Ukrainian defenders have fought heroically and effectively. So this has gone wrong for Putin. And I think the key to this whole crisis has been a failure to armed the Ukrainians sufficiently to deter the Russians. Weapons aren't a deterrent, weapons are a deterrent, and we didn't give the Ukrainians enough.