I’ll probably be back 1 day per week next month. My team is virtual, teammates all over the country, so I’m really just a hotelier anyway. Travel ramping up too. Two weeks of travel already scheduled for April.
I’m hopeful that the Ukrainians put up a good fight and hold off the Russians in the immediate term. Short and medium term seem more precarious. Long term, any puppet regime will eventually be ousted. Putin is nearing 70. We’re in the last decade of his reign.
Macron said as much. I wonder what someone like Putin would do if he was ever diagnosed with a terminal illness. Would he just fade to black or go out like a supernova?
If the EU eventually allows Putin to get away with this, meaning he installs a puppet government and then we just go on and pretend nothing happened, he wins. The rest of the EU will fall, one by one.
I hope this fizzles out. This just feels different somehow. I heard reports that Macron observed that Putin has changed markedly in the past two years, more cut off.