Putin is on the ropes and US, NATO must call his bluff with these 3 lines of support

Russian President Vladimir Putin knows that the abject failure of his "special military operation" in Ukraine now represents the greatest threat he has ever faced to his own regime security. 

The Department of Defense estimates that over 80,000 Russian soldiers have been killed or wounded in a war, which Putin said would last days but is now in its seventh month.  Ukraine’s blistering counteroffensive in Kharkiv, which featured crossing the strategic Oskil river, has cornered Putin. 

Putin has been forced to rely on North Korea for artillery and Iran for drones.  The Kremlin has reportedly sent prisoners from Russian jails as well as mercenaries from Chechnya and the Wagner Group to fight in Ukraine.