Russian lawmakers authorize Putin to use military force outside the country, Part II

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Perhaps he figures that whoever survives (and didn't surrender to Ukraine and then seek political asylum or emigrate normally) will be able to be assigned there once everything is over? Or perhaps he just doesn't care if he's not going to be the HMIC so he's willing to spend every resource he can scrape up to try to turn things back in his favor, even if that means nothing will be left when he's finally removed.