Reports coming in
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Reports coming in
It's surprising because it's basically a series of unforced errors in sequence that compromise their own info war. They push the Donbas narrative super hard internally, position their actions as peacekeeping, then don't actually even commit enough to achieve those strategic goals because they essentially planned to not encounter resistance. So instead of merely liberating the separatist regions OR quickly decapitating Ukraine's regime they're sending a bunch of Russian soldiers/materiel into the grinder so that they can get sanctioned and negotiate anyway. It's scatterbrained
This is why I don't believe the whole "we're peacekeeping and fighting nazi's" any more than I do "Putin is Hitler and wants to restart the Soviet Union and the cold war" narratives.
Salt of the Earth people really aren't all that motivated to kill other salt of the Earth people without good reason. So you generally have to make things beyond black and white and resort to exaggerations. Hence, you're not just killing "other people", those people are "Hitler". You're not just risking your lives and the lives of your children for oil & gas or control over an economic zone, you are liberating a land from tyranny. We support the Ukrainians killing Russians over there, so we don't have to kill Russians over here.
Nice to see Havavax enjoying a good about this shit.
What a guy.
Wait - the first news that has really bummed me out:
Largest aircraft in the world destroyed at Ukrainian air base
NO Antonov AN-225 Mriya - say it ain't so!