I am a fool indeed… they really aired his pre-recorded escalatory message. Mind, he knows he is being seen as a wan*er right now, and a pariah without any support: even real wan*ers like Lukashenko and Kadyrov cannot believe he is doing this for real. He is not even buying time because there is no way any mobilisation can impact this war in the sense he likes: his army, his hierarchy, his packages have been found out as a corrupt, inept, gigantic fraud.
This only leads to a quick endgame, imho, which is as necessary as scary: can he really throw nukes?