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Onvacation says

Eric Holder says

Of course they do: they have plenty of Russian ATGMs, waay more than 160 Jav tubes Ukraine had prior the war. And Russian IAD. And Russian fighter planes. And since Russia has no problem with NATO expansion, what does (long defunct) Warsaw Pact has to do with anything? Let's drop this red herring, shall we?

Why did Russia invade Ukraine? Empire?

Yep, Pulter has came out of the closet during St. Petersburg Economic Forum and said it out loud that the goal is to restore the empire like Peter the Great did. Which makes it even more funny to poke alinas and watch them regurgitate all the shit which was made irrelevant on the day the confession was made.

Putin actually always confesses to the real thing later in the game after all the red herrings outlive their usefulness. I guess it gives him pleasure to rub it in. Case in point - Crimea invasion and annexation of 2014: before it he said "there is no way, no how we plan to go for Crimea", then, when the whole "special operation" was underway he was saying that he doesn't know who the "little green man" are and then, finally, he said that these were members Russian military all along. Same with the Dumb Ass "people's uprising": it went from "miners and farmers who rebelled using tanks and MRLRs they found in abandoned mines" to "our military people performing tasks of military nature".