Putin Sees War With 'Religious' Zeal, Estonia Spy Chief Says

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

(Bloomberg) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin is pursuing his war aims in Ukraine with a “religious” fervor and is unlikely to change course even as his eight-month invasion is beleaguered by setbacks, Estonia’s spy chief said.

Mikk Marran, Estonia’s outgoing espionage chief, said that the Baltic nation’s intelligence indicated that the Russian president isn’t having second thoughts about the conflict, despite the lack of strategic accomplishments and a firmer line from an expanded NATO.

“He’s still on a kind of a religious or a messianic mission -- and we see that Putin is preparing his country and its army to continue fighting for a long time,” Marran, 44, told a group of reporters in Tallinn on Tuesday.

The assessment aligns with Putin’s escalation of the conflict in recent weeks, pressing forward with an illegal bid to annex four Ukrainian regions even as his forces are being pushed back by a robust counteroffensive in the eastern and southern parts of the country.

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He has the support of the Russian Orthodox church.

[Mister Ed]

1. There once was a Tsar who just kept feeding Russian soldiers into the meat grinder that way.

Things did not end well for Tsar Nicholas II.

[RockRaven]

2. Literally religious. Whereas they started by saying the special military operation was about

denazification, the Russian media rhetoric has apparently moved on to claiming that Ukraine is full of religious sects which require "desatanisation."

[The_Casual_Observer]

3. "continue for a long time" until they don't.

It's unsustainable.

[PortTack]

4. He recently said he was willing to commit 10-20 million men to Ukraine

He doesn’t have 10-20 million to commit, but more importantly..russia, are you listening? He doesn’t care if he kills all of you as long as he achieves his goal.

[brush]

5. Putin, like Hitler did and trump does, thinks he's smarter than his generals.

Not true at all as he's made every mistake in the book with his so-called 3-day special military operation. It's now 9-months-long and Russia's once-vaunted army is losing, is no longer feared and has been exposed as third-rate.

Now Putin has made his next big mistake with this mass, 300k man mobilization thrown into Ukraine with hardly any training or equipment with the harsh winter coming up.

It's going to be a long, hard slog but it won't end well for Putin and the Russians.