Putin is playing the victim. Did you read the article you submitted?
Moscow increasingly views the Ukrainian strikes as attacks by NATO states because alliance members supply Kyiv with weapons and intelligence, the people said. The current phase of hostilities isn’t the peak of military escalation, they said.
President Vladimir Putin signaled his intentions in weekend comments to a state TV reporter, as he shrugged off the impact of the attacks on Russia’s economy. Ukraine “opened this Pandora’s box,” he said. “Well, be ready to get a blowback on your most sensitive sectors of the economy.”
I sure did. Nobody is playing a victim here. What’s happening is that Russia has identified NATO as a direct participant in the war and is planning to retaliate in kind.
Ah yes, a RAND report listing hypothetical US policy options two years before the UNPROVOKED RUSSIAN INVASION OF UKRAINE is apparently the same thing as NATO personally forcing Putin to do it. By that logic, reading a menu means you cooked the meal. The report may discuss escalation risks, but it doesn’t even suggest that NATO caused Russia’s aggression, much less turn the aggressor into the victim like we see here.
I bolded the correct answer to “what war” up there for ya, since I don’t think you were ever going to get there.
The paper literally describes how and why the war was provoked. Maybe spend a bit of time learning to read so as not to make a clown of yourself in public in the future.
Putin is playing the victim. Did you read the article you submitted?
Yeah, I did, where is anybody playing the victim?
Holy fuck. Did you read the comment you just replied to?
I sure did. Nobody is playing a victim here. What’s happening is that Russia has identified NATO as a direct participant in the war and is planning to retaliate in kind.
What war? Keep going, you’re almost there.
The proxy war NATO intentionally provoked as was extensively documented in US policy papers such as this one https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR3063.html
Ah yes, a RAND report listing hypothetical US policy options two years before the UNPROVOKED RUSSIAN INVASION OF UKRAINE is apparently the same thing as NATO personally forcing Putin to do it. By that logic, reading a menu means you cooked the meal. The report may discuss escalation risks, but it doesn’t even suggest that NATO caused Russia’s aggression, much less turn the aggressor into the victim like we see here.
I bolded the correct answer to “what war” up there for ya, since I don’t think you were ever going to get there.
The paper literally describes how and why the war was provoked. Maybe spend a bit of time learning to read so as not to make a clown of yourself in public in the future.
The paper written in 2019 describes how the invasion in 2022 was provoked?