Putin's masterplan was to cause chaos

Perhaps the Russian invasion of Ukraine was a Putin masterplan that had very little to do with Ukraine itself. Perhaps the Kremlin leader really thought up this idea of causing political and economic chaos in the West and decided an invasion of Ukraine was the best way to do it. If so, victory for Putin. So while all the experts are saying Russia is having a hard time to quell Ukrainian resistance, Putin is laughing because his "special military operation" in Ukraine was just a device to undermine and hopefully destroy economies throughout Europe and the US and put huge pressure on leaders everywhere. As a long-term strategy it is already working pretty well. Joe Biden is suffering the worst popularity ratings, with much of his promised infrastructure programme on hold while he spends billions of dollars on weapons for Ukraine, Macron is facing humiliation in France, having won the presidential election but lost control of parliament, Olaf Scholz is all over the place as Angela Merkel's successor, Boris Johnson is facing rebellion in the Conservative party and the whole of Europe is struggling to cope with the rising cost of living while coming under increasing pressure from Kyiv to send more and more heavy weapons. If this was all Putin's masterplan then we are all fooling ourselves to imagine that we can deal a mighty blow to Moscow by arming Ukraine. Putin is playing with all of us, doing what he has always done best, sewing seeds of instability throughout Europe.