Have give the old czar credit
Not that he was playing against a first stringer
How has Putin "outplayed" Biden???? Even the Chinese are condemning him for violating the sovereignty of the Ukraine. Putin has now backed himself into a corner and started a war he cannot afford, and will never win, and one which the Russian people overwhelmingly do not want.
That dog and pony show he's putting about "protecting ethnic Russians" is the same bullshit he used for his take over of Georgia. And if the Ukrainians are your family and part of your "soul", why are waging war on them? Why aren't you sitting down and talking like brothers?
Only gullible Trump supporters are buying this bullshit. Putin is now in big trouble. The Germans just shut down his new oil and gas pipeline. The oligarchs will lose access to their money, and NATO has never been more united. Not only has Putin healed the NATO fractures that Trump gave him, he's actually strengthened the alliance, and other FSU countries are now asking to join.
How you can see this is anything but the dumbest thing Putin has ever done, is beyond me. And why are you cheering on America's sworn enemy here? Putin wants the Western democracies, including the USA, destroyed. He has interfered with your elections, hacked your infrastructure, and generally done harm to your country at every opportunity.
Putin wants revenge on the USA for the destruction of the USSR. Why are you supporting that?