Putin Is Finally Climbing The Escalation Ladder

Andrew Korybko- He wants to deter the even greater provocations that the West might now be plotting

He wants to deter the even greater provocations that the West might now be plotting, such as destabilizing and then invading Belarus, with the intent of coercing him into freezing the existing LOC and then possibly accepting the deployment of Western/NATO peacekeepers there.

……

https://thealtworld.com/andrew_korybko/putin-is-finally-climbing-the-escalation-ladder