re: If Putin is victorious in Ukraine, what is his next move?

I think Putin anticipated it going a certain way, give or take a few contingencies here and there, but had a general scheme of how to get into it, then how to slip out of it with certain “gains” to go back home and claim as victory. Easy enough, right?

What threw his arse into a tailspin was just how badly Biden and his administration reacted to it and their “plans” moving forward and “benchmarks for success” and “objectives.” Nobody planned for how horrible the Biden administration would be.