by Paul Craig Roberts, Paul Craig Roberts:

How long is Putin going to sit on his butt and allow his limited military operation to be widened into nuclear war?  If Putin does not soon fulfill his responsibility to quickly bring the conflict to a decisive Russian victory before Washington and NATO can further widen the war, Putin’s legacy will be nuclear Armageddon. 

For a year now Putin has allowed a war Russia could have quickly won to widen into a confrontation between the US/NATO and Russia. This is no longer a limited Russian operation in Donbass.  Each successive widening by the West has crossed more Russian red lines that are never enforced. If Putin wasn’t willing to fight a war, he should not have gone into Donbass.