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Let's suspending our moral judgement for a minute.
Putin's decision to invade Ukraine is a textbook decision-making mistake. As a brilliant tactician, he didn't have the brains and experience to make a strategic move. In a good decision-making process, his views would be rigorously challenged to ensure the desired outcome, including development of back-up plans and hedging options should something go wrong. Obviously, quite the opposite had happened. Due to his isolation/secrecy and power, not enough people were involved in the decision-making process and nobody was willing to challenge his key decisions (see the Patrushev video). As the result, a person at the pinnacle of power in Russia made a novice mistake. It's a system-level failure that resulted in a strategic blunder with dire consequences.
Putin's decision to invade Ukraine is a textbook decision-making mistake. As a brilliant tactician, he didn't have the brains and experience to make a strategic move. In a good decision-making process, his views would be rigorously challenged to ensure the desired outcome, including development of back-up plans and hedging options should something go wrong. Obviously, quite the opposite had happened. Due to his isolation/secrecy and power, not enough people were involved in the decision-making process and nobody was willing to challenge his key decisions (see the Patrushev video). As the result, a person at the pinnacle of power in Russia made a novice mistake. It's a system-level failure that resulted in a strategic blunder with dire consequences.