Putin's clumsy military campaign in southern Ukraine makes little sense

 https://edition.cnn.com/2022/03/07/europe/russia-southern-ukraine-military-analysis-intl/index.html

It is a marvel that Moscow was either so convinced civil disobedience would not be a problem or decided that they simply did not need a plan to deal with it. The Kremlin's attempt to film Russian aid trucks handing out the solution to the problem its invasion created was greeted with local scorn and profanity. The protests go on.