By all accounts, the dreaded "forty-mile convoy" seems not to have made an inch of progress in going on three days.

That's not "reassessing your strategy", we're getting into "rethinking your life" territory now.

@mcfate I first heard about this convoy coming, I believe it was 4 days ago. It almost felt like a trap. Like they were going to get Ukraine to send out people, planes and such, and kill them. Yet here we are, 4 days later and they’re all doing nothing. They should’ve been to Kyiv in less than a day.

@DanKravetsky

They're running out of fuel, they'll have to DRAG tanks to Kyiv.

@mcfate this is crazy. Putin knows what it takes for a war, but was so unprepared, even with all the time he had to prepare.

@DanKravetsky

From all reports, he literally didn't think there was going to be a war.

He thought the Ukrainian military would surrender immediately, the people would greet their "liberators" with flowers, and Zelenskiy would had for the hills, hopefully with a bagful of Ukraine's money.

Never get high on your own supply.

@mcfate @DanKravetsky

"Never get high on your own supply."

I think this crystalizes it. Putin has been destabilizing country after country using psy-ops on social media and the RW clown show and media shitshow that supported Ru propaganda with incredible success, installing proto-fascist strongman after strongman who sympathize who have been propping up his murderous tyranny and giving it the veneer of normalcy.

His glittering prize in that is delivering big dividends even still.

@TheAbbotTrithemius @DanKravetsky

Well, he's burning 1.4% of his domestic GDP every day this war goes on, and that probably doesn't even include all the shit they're having stolen or blown to shit.

Do the math. For how many days straight can you spend 1.4% of your GDP?

@mcfate @TheAbbotTrithemius @DanKravetsky given that Russian economic productivity is cratering, their markets are still suspended, and the rouble has plummeted, that GDP number is probably inaccurate at best; a fantasy at worst.