The US sanctions on Russia hurt Putin's wealthy allies. There are reasons why Putin may have underestimated his invasion. He claimed that Putin had underestimated Russia's military budget. The Russian invasion of Ukraine was met with 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 put forward what he said were misjudgments by Putin in ordering the invasion. He suggested that Putin had underestimated the Russian military, while he had dedicated billions of dollars to modernizing Russia's forces. —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 it was notorious for its golden passport scheme that allowed rich foreigners to buy European Union citizenship. Russia has been ranked as one of the most corrupt countries by transparency international. Polina Beliakova, an expert at Tufts University, wrote in Politico this week that Russian troops were going into battle in Ukraine with out-of-date ration, faulty equipment, and inadequate fuel supplies. Western officials have said that Putin expected the invasion to happen quickly. Russia has failed to establish air superiority, and casualties have mounted amid stiff Ukrainian resistance, but the capital, Kyiv, is still in Ukrainian control. The invasion appeared to be in response to speculation about Putin's state of mind. Some officials and commentators have suggested 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, others wondered if he was crazy enough 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 made an error. He believes that Putin believed his own propaganda about the nation of Ukraine. Putin underestimated the unity of the West, which responded to the attack with sanctions that have crippled 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. Russia's invasion of Ukraine is not going well, with Russian soldiers being the biggest casualties so far, according to the UK's defence minister. 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