It additionally works for him.
All the pieces is becoming his narrative to the Russian folks of “Look see! I instructed you! NATO are advancing in direction of our borders they’re the aggressors! Aren’t you glad you might have a strongman like me in cost who was prepared to do what was mandatory in Ukraine and put a cease to all this!”
Persons are very naive right here, pondering Putin is sat someplace proper now like “man I fucked up and made Finland be part of”. Nah he is in a bubble. He in all probability thinks that is all NATOs fault.