I saw this yesterday and just sat in awe of the mental gymnastics on display. It was literally incredible. “There’s no way anyone actually believes this tripe,” I said to myself. “This is just ban bait.”

Russia just needs to finish denazifying Ukraine, then the special military operation™️ (totally not a war, tavarish) will be concluded.

I don’t get it, this is literally a rehash of that NYT article from a perspective critical of US and NATO. Is it not allowed to be against the US or against NATO?

Just because Elon or Putin agrees with something, doesn’t make it automatically wrong. It might make it suspect but you’ve got a grade A western official source for all this.

What THE FUCK is wrong with you people? I get it you see Russia and Putin as the great Satan, but facts are facts. Unless you can disprove them or cast serious doubt on them. What you never should do in a tolerant liberal democratic society is to shit on people for pointing out legitimate historic facts. You’re all speedrunning 1984.

The greatest triumph of Trump is that he managed to pull you all down to his level.

I mean, if you read the NYT article, it is nothing that I believe should not have been assumed. The people providing the non-human resources are actively in on the decision making, when something doesn’t work, they move to stronger weapons/tactics. The idea that this is “scandalous” is weird, this is all just like business as usual, for anyone in a war. Why would anyone assume NATO wasn’t involved in calling the shots, and making decisions to, as they would hope, win?

I am against the russian side of this, like a lot, but this is just another tuesday type of stuff.