From our friends on the other website. I can’t pick my favorite part of this image: Is it the belief that Russia is both not a superpower but also has complete control over Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, North Korea, and half of America? Or is it this person’s honest belief that the Palestine-Israel conflict began last year and shit was peaches and cream up until then?

    • That was the narrative when, in the first week there was an attack from Belarus directly south that stopped in the outskirts of Kyiv suburbs. The troops were pulled back after a few days and redeployed to the Donbass front line. Russia claimed that it was a feint, while the West claimed that Russia were so inept and overconfident that they thought they could take Kyiv in a day.

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      Lukashenko said it, it could have been bluster, it could have been serious, the initial Russian push suggested it was serious but they pretty quickly abandoned it in favor of the attritional fight we have.