*Western powers have realised Russia is largely immune to sanctions.*

In effect, the warnings of disaster that we heard coming from Biden were more exaggeration than I guess they were. Rather than a standard-issue paper tiger, they were more like a tissue-paper tiger.

The chance we had to prevent this war were months ago. Starting then, we could have provided Ukraine with the military strength to deter the attack.

*[Putin] has hardly kept his worldview secret – and now Ukraine is paying the price for western leaders who looked the other way.*