[Cyberbob]

I can't remember who said it recently, but there was a good soundbite variant of the old 'You are playing checkers while they are playing chess', illustrating that while the west is playing chess, Putin is playing poker.

Putin's actually made numerous references over the years to a childhood story involving a rat he that he had cornered with nowhere to go, and it jumped out at him, relating to learning a valuable lesson about the dangers of backing opponents into a corner.
I'm sure armchair wargame strategists all over the world are lapping it all up.