(Yesterday at 9:53 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: More of a misread, insomuch as they considered it they believed that the ukranian population was overwhelmingly on their side. There's this idea that putin, serious person and master strategist, taking personal control of the fsb made it one of the more competent arms of the russian regime. Not so. They're just as and probably even more motivated to tell the great man what he wants to hear in spite of the realities on the ground. This, ofc, being the phrase that russia likes to use in it's "negotiation" posturing while babbling about places they don't control and can't take by force.
People have been reading it as ten dimensional chess and clever propaganda. Just like we do here with donald. Nope. It's just people lying to save their jobs and lives, and because why not. No one in country is going to fact check them.
Well, I was referring to the motivation of the fighting troops, not the civvies.
