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This image clarifies the murk a bit.

Like the man who has everything in the Dos Equis commercials. --- I don't drink much, but when I do...

So it is with the NY Times.  The Times shamelessly shrink wraps the most rancid government propaganda in respectable authoritarian credentials.  Known for accuracy, when they lie they do it well.  Unsurpassed skill at providing America with the most professional lies (in moderation) that you can find.  Fuck them.

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How do they plan for a quick conflict?  I suppose they could just surrender right away.  They can't win fast, even using Nukes.

You can see them using the fear mongering and propaaganda to soften up the public for cuts to social welfare programs.

They said this had left ministers locked in an unenviable task of persuading unprepared voters to cut welfare spending to fund defence.

Also using the tried & true tactic of wildly exaggerating numbers to raise the perception of threat:

In Ukraine, 200,000 drones are being built each month, with the goal of producing more than 7m in 2026. To support this growth, 500 small and medium-sized companies have sprung up, assembling drones even in small workshops, using mostly Chinese components.

200K drones a MONTH?  That would mean the Ukies are buzzing Mother Russia with ~7000 Drones EVERY DAY.  Come On!  Even if most of them were just spy drones they wouldn't need that many.  Maybe they're selling a lot of them?  Doubt they could compete with the Chinese on price.  Just ridiculous.

They will probably get their war though, and it might even be short.  Mainly because they'll run out of Ammo.



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The MSM is all abuzz about the Ruskie Boogeyman's "Hybrid Warfare" against the EU & NATO.  The instigation of all this Fear Mongering is over 3 Drones supposedly packed with explosives which did NOT detonate in the Leipzig airport.  They were conveniently found and nobody knows if they were really supposed to explode or not, nor is there any evidence actually linking them to Russia.

According to the reports "everybody" in Europe is worried about this new escalation of Ruskie belligerence, except the thing is nobody would even know about it if every media outlet wasn't plastering the headlines on every website.  Nobody got killed, no skyscrapers collapsed and the water supply hasn't been poisoned.  If they weren't broadcastring this horror, the only people who would actually be worried are the Pols and security services.

The  theory  being promoted is Vlad is doing this to "test" Europe to see how they would react to an actual attack.  As tests go, it's pretty pathetic, since with nobody dead and no critical infrastructure damage, you still have no idea how they would react to a REAL attack.  The current reaction is to add more Sanctions for Russia to ignore or evade.

So who's really doing the testing and to what end?  The only thing that makes sense is they are testing the public to see how much support they'll get for ramping up military spending and cutting their social welfare budgets.   What they want is more money to spend on war toys.  They wanna do it without actually killing anyone, because that might backfire and force them into a real confrontation they don't want.

Far as Vlad goes, he doesn't have to do anything to sow more dissention and bickering between EuroPols.  They are doing fine floundering on their own.

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