• ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.mlOP
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    1 year ago

    Absolutely, the whole narrative is built on the idea that Russia is falling apart and can barely keep things together. People internalized it over the past two years, and just regurgitate these tropes now. What’s striking to me is how fluidly they’re able to abandon narratives that have run their course without any reflection.

    First, Russian economy was supposed to collapse within weeks. Then Russia was supposed to run out of shell, missiles, and manpower so the military conflict was going to be over quickly. Obviously none of these things actually happened, yet nobody asked why all these projections were wrong and what the implications of that are.

    We still see libs dismiss any articles admitting the reality as Russian propaganda, even when these articles come from rabidly pro Ukrainian mainstream media in the west.

    The sheer capacity people have for denying reality is really incredible.

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      1 year ago

      They think some harm to Russian economy = collapse of Russian economy just because the US and EU economies are so fragile it would mean that

      • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.mlOP
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        Exactly, they imagined that Russia worked more or less the way the west does which led to a monumental miscalculation in policy. This war will be taught in history books as the catalyst for the collapse of the burger empire.