This blew up in Putin’s face

| 3:00 pm EDT May 14, 2022
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As Putin’s reckless war of aggression continues in Ukraine, his last hope depended on whether the rest of Europe was intimidated by the possibility of what he’d do next – with the countries neighboring Russia turning into allies of some sort while keeping enough Russian soldiers at home to deal with potential unrest – or that his own people would feel some nationalist sympathy as the rest of the world cut their ties with the country and come around to supporting an invasion of Ukraine.

We haven’t been seeing much of the latter – as Russians continue to demonstrate against the war their own government has gotten them into, even with the personal cost that comes with it, and the former is only worsening what Putin was already afraid of.

Now, Russia’s Baltic neighbor Finland is applying for membership in NATO – a decision that the country’s president and prime minister have made despite the threats of nuclear weapons made by the Kremlin.

Putin is continuing with these threats – along with calling Finland’s recent decision a danger to Russia, but it only makes him look even more foolish as the invasion of Ukraine has already failed in its original intent and it’s clearer than ever that he didn’t expect NATO to be as unified as it currently is.