The belief that Vladimir Putin was bluffing, that he would never give the order for the nearly 200,000-man army he had spent months amassing on the borders of Ukraine to invade, persisted as late as 5:45am Moscow time the day of the attack, when, grimacing in a red tie, Russia’s ruler of almost 23 via Technology and News Today https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/02/ukraine-invasion-putin-is-ruling-alone.html