From long experience overseas , I am cautios about labeling any adversary Dumb , different yes but Dumb no. Look at DC , London , Paris etc. for instituitional Stupidity
Indeed. But I don't want to offer any aid or comfort to the enemy.
But I really do have a hard time imagining there is a method to this madness....even while I must acknowledge that I don't know what I don't know. Russians are so alien I can't really guess their motives.
If I had to put money on, i'd guess he is just trying to run out the clock, hoping the US has another economic collapse and gives up, while trying to look 'cool' to his friends in the mean time.