How Putin's War Becomes a Catastrophe

I think for me, one of the big lessons of this whole episode was... I mean, I was committing what you can call, if you like, a logical fallacy. A lot of things that don't make any sense happen because countries get controlled by people who have lost it in the meantime. Napoleon deciding to invade Russia did not make any sense; less invade Russia as a way of showing England how dangerous we are rather than building a bunch of flatboats with oars and just sailing over there.