Yes, I'm afraid it is. But listening to his partial mobilisation speech today, let's remember he said he would take nothing off the table if Russia's sovereignty was breached. It isn't being. The devil is in the detail of his words.
Demented he might be, but who in the world actually thinks NATO would stand idly by if he starts throwing nukes around. Besides, the radioactive fallout is no respector of national borders, his included. And 70% of his people live in European Russia.