“It’s not a bluff”: nuclear threat, reservists … why Vladimir Putin chooses to headlong

On February 24, Vladimir Putin announced on television the launch of a “special military operation” in Ukraine. The world hung on his lips and that of the Ukrainians was crumbling. It took seven months and a monumental rout of the Russian army to see the master of the Kremlin again sitting behind his desk, ready to prove to the whole world that he is not breaking up.