Sounds to me like he’s setting up the military to take the blame when the war is inevitably lost.

“The country and government is giving everything that the army asks for — everything,” Putin told top military officials at the Defense Ministry’s annual meeting in Moscow on Wednesday. “I trust that there will be an appropriate response and the results will be achieved.”

Now when the military fails to “achieve” an “appropriate response”, it’s not his fault, because he gave them everything they asked for. No, it’s on the incompetent military leaders who failed to achieve victory even with “unlimited” resources.

Man those guys will be in for a shock in a few months.