The Russians' Concept of Operation in Ukraine

I don't think Putin is holding back at this point. I read the deployment of troops from the Eastern Military District as a message to NATO saying, we could bring our forces all the way from the Pacific. We can use our entire military. You don't just look at what we had. The threat to you is much bigger than that. And I read it as intended as a message like that. It looks to me like a plan that was like a mobilization that was not intended initial support and actual invasion. But then the boss changed his mind or hadn't communicated at the outset clearly and said, okay, we're doing this"