Retired U.S. Army General Mark Hertling called Russia's recent annexation of four Ukrainian regions, despite mounting losses, 'psychotic' on Saturday.
Hertling, who regularly appears on CNN as a military analyst, said that Putin is increasingly losing touch with reality and that he has"nothing left to maneuver" in Ukraine. He added that Putin's attempts to declare annexations and adopt a victorious posture were"psychotic."
"The fact that there is such hubris in the face of failure at every level that Mr. Putin is exhibiting is just amazing," Hertling said."And he still tries to do the Machiavellian approach of maneuvering pieces on the chess board, and there's nothing really to maneuver right now. He's been condemned on the world stage, he's losing on the battlefield, his economy is faltering, and yet he's still doubling down.
Hertling described the Russian leader's recent pronouncement that Russia would annex four Ukrainian provinces as illegitimate and a violation of international law. The"land grabs" came after referendum votes in the breakaway Donbas region, which the retired general also said was illegitimate, accusing the Kremlin of ordering votes to be falsified.
In claiming to annex the regions of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia, Putin declared that any attack on them would be considered an attack on Russia itself, including any attempts Ukraine might
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