With NATO special forces on the ground in Ukraine, Putin can now indeed claim a direct confrontation between Russia and NATO taking place. What a clusterfuck. The whole time NATO states have tried their utmost to keep their military personnel off Ukrainian soil. And now the Brits and the Yanks seemingly undermined that. I can only hope that this is not true but some sort of deep fake. But I'm not too optimistic. Anyway, this war was always going to be a major land warfare fought over the whole of Europe. I never had any illusions about it. (Although I desparately hoped otherwise.) And this war will last until Putin is dead. So here we are, one year into the war, and the overt exchange of Russia–Nato blows quickly approaching. It will get a whole lot worse before it can get better.