The Russian president's forces are 'doing very badly,' and he underestimated the Western response, Barry McCaffrey said Sunday.
"I think we're going to see that across the board, Putin put himself in a strategic disaster. The problem is, how are we going to act to end this intense suffering in Ukraine—huge nation, 40 million people—when the fighting in Kyiv gets intense? And in the coming weeks it's going to be painful to watch," the retired general said. .
McCaffrey also pushed back concerns about"risking" nuclear escalation. He said that the chance Putin would use a nuclear weapon"approaches zero." Many analysts believe that Putin underestimated the resistance Russia's forces would face in Ukraine as well as how Western nations would respond to the invasion. Within Moscow, Putin and his government reportedly believed that they would take control of much of Ukraine within days, but the war has already dragged on for more than two weeks without Russian forces capturing any major Ukrainian city.
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