You could be right and if Kyiv doesn't put up as much a defense they try to occupy it or he wants Ukraine to spread its forces out in order to make defending what was easy to occupy easier with less civilian casualties getting these folks on his side as most were Russian speaking and already engaged in a pseudo civil war based on his reports... the truth lies in the middle imo
So all this started when the Ukrainian Leadership was taken out in 2014 for not wanting to join the EU and taking a deal with Russia after accusations of election fraud and voter interference in 2010, you know the guy Biden was doing business with that is now in Russia
... Russia took Crimea just months later and Obama said they were not a threat
, he for some reason just took Crimea and stopped after his Russia, Russia. Russia president gets voted into office... but I'll stop since this is not a political thread and this war will be over fast with our support