There’s definitely that too, but here I think it’s more about the value judgement. “Ukraine should have negotiated a surrender at the start from a position of relative strength? What, are you a Putinist? Do you want every Ukrainian to DIE?” goes to “Yeah, maybe fighting to the last Ukrainian in a war we never could have won wasn’t the best thing from a humanitarian standpoint.”
Especially when so many people were telling me how I’m a cooky conspiracy theorist for believing it.
There’s definitely that too, but here I think it’s more about the value judgement. “Ukraine should have negotiated a surrender at the start from a position of relative strength? What, are you a Putinist? Do you want every Ukrainian to DIE?” goes to “Yeah, maybe fighting to the last Ukrainian in a war we never could have won wasn’t the best thing from a humanitarian standpoint.”
And in the next breath “Ukraine will fight to the last ukrainian! Slava Ukrain- What’s that? No why would I volunteer? It’s not my war to fight”
indeed