>>518819717
to survive.
he gambled way too high and the sunk cost are too much to step back from and admit defeat.
if he does he might legit get gaddafi'd by renegade apparatchiks or even the plebs (unlikely).
if he keeps kicking the can down the road something positive might still happen, something that gets him out alive and maybe even victorious to some degree

>>518633597
true, this is why russians intercept those cheap simple drones with even cheaper refineries