Russia and Ukraine

[The Grand Nudger]

Bel is of a generally anti-american persuasion and believes in the moral decay of the west. Russian propaganda and threats target these people in the hopes that they will cause their governments to abandon ukraine, whom they are incapable of defeating on the field. As it turns out, russia engages in this hybrid war model not because Vlad is a genius...but because their military is a raging dumpster fire. To be fair, it sometimes works..insomuch as the citizens of other countries can be raging dumpster fires themselves.

Case in point. Russia threatens to freeze europe unless they abandon ukraine (and....lets be honest, before ukraine, about any and every thing that climbed up their asses) - and yet, european fuel reserves are near topped out ahead of schedule, the price of russian fuels is in the shitter, demand is down, and global warming is making winters mild - but still...moral decay style, the hope is that the west doesn't have the resolve to tough it out if things were different. Meanwhile, Vlads "allies" are buying up his oil at half price and then reselling it for market price as their own. This can be seen in trade partners doubling or tripling their production all of a sudden despite building no new rigs or refineries and, ofc, in the many (many many many many) shots of offshore ship to ship transfers.

We can assume the us is the great satan, and that the lizard people are profiteering from the war...but neither of these things alters the reality above.