Putin's Stalingrad

Putin has badly miscalculated.  He has underestimated Ukrainian resolve to resist annexation. 

Evidence of his anger and frustration is his escalation of the civilian slaughter to industrial levels.  The leveling of Aleppo foreshadowed this. 

Russia does not begin to have a large enough military and resources to occupy/pacify Ukraine.  This is a country with a population of over 40 million, and Putin has already committed the vast bulk of his military.

It’s becoming extremely costly for the Russians to keep up this kind of siege. 

Every single day there is the grinding loss of large numbers of armored vehicles, men and materiel. Morale in the Russian army is dropping. 

Like the Nazi overreach of WWII this may ironically become Putin’s ‘Siege of Stalingrad’.