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  • There are reasons why Putin may have made a mistake.

  • He says that Putin underestimated Russia's military budget.

  • Russia's invasion of Ukraine has slowed down due to Ukrainian resistance.

A former Russian foreign minister claimed that corruption was one of the reasons for the poor performance of the Russian military.

The former foreign minister under Boris Yeltsin said that President Putin made mistakes in ordering the invasion.

He claims that Putin spent billions of dollars on modernizing the Russian military. The money may have been lost to corruption.

—Andrei V Kozyrev (@andreivkozyrev) March 6, 2022

The last 20 years have been spent modernizing the military of the Kremlin. The budget was stolen and spent on mega-yachts in Cyprus. As a military advisor, you can't report that to the President. They lied to him instead.

Cyprus has long been a favored destination for Russian officials looking to laundered money, and was notorious for its golden passport scheme that allowed rich foreigners to buy EU citizenship.

Russia is ranked as one of the world's most corrupt countries, with a particular problem in its defense sector.

Russian troops were going into battle in Ukraine with out-of-date equipment and inadequate fuel supplies because of rampant corruption, according to an expert.

The invasion of Ukraine was expected to be successful by Putin.

With the capital, Kyiv, still in Ukrainian control, Russia had failed to establish air superiority, and casualties were mounting.

The invasion appeared to be in response to speculation about Putin's state of mind.

Some officials and commentators claimed that there was no rational explanation for the invasion and that Putin may have been hampered by his self-imposed isolation during the COVID-19 epidemic.

If he was cornered, some wondered if he would be able to launch nuclear weapons.

As Russia sought closer ties with the West after the fall of the Soviet Union, the foreign secretary said he believed Putin was a rational decision-maker who had poor assumptions.

He said that Putin probably believed his own propaganda about Ukraine not being a real nation, which he highlighted when justifying the invasion.

The West responded to the attack with sanctions that have hurt the Russian economy.

In my opinion, he is rational. I think he will not use nuclear weapons against the West because he is rational.

The original article is on Business Insider.

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