& because if he waits as he's been doing he'll have NATO on his border and then there is only the nuclear option. He goes now as he has he can delay that day perhaps indefinitely. He's warned Biden and the rest and if they take heed he'll get what he aimed for. If not, if they/NATO, U.S., get our backs up, then it's judgment day. Nobody likes to lose and lose face. Putin did and now he's dragging the aforementioned [/NATO, U.S.] thru that miserable ing experience>>>(we) don't like it and we're tempted, oh, daddy, are we ever tempted.
There was a U.S. General at the end of II., (name escapes me) who implored, absolutely begged Truman to let him head North with everything we had in the field and take out Russia.
& Truman considered it.