> that can manipulate elections at will and subsume every US social movement to spread its propaganda, but is too stupid and helpless to create a US front company
The first chapter of "Propaganda" is that the enemy is cunning and wicked while also weak and helpless at the same time.
It's also weird that Russia has been running out of ammunition for the last 5 years and is a weak enemy at the same time its able to fight a country supported by virtually the whole of west with NATO arms, NATO training and best of all NATO intelligence/spies with a sanction that was supposed to turn the "ruble" in to "rubble"
It's not strange. I had deep respect and even some fear of the Russian Army for what it could potentially do to my country.
That fear is now largely gone for me. If they can't blitzkrieg the Ukraine, good luck coming here. It would be hell of course, but we could keep them at bay.
"The west" have supported the Ukraine, but only really with a trickle of arms compared to its resources in reserve. The combined air forces alone of the west would totally mop up the Russian forces at this stage of the war.
The santions have driven up the Ruble, true, but how much is really transacted with that Ruble? It's also problematic to have a strong currency. Russian soldiers are for some strange reason paid a war risk premium calculated in dollar equivalents, which means less rubles when exchanged at the current rate.
The first chapter of "Propaganda" is that the enemy is cunning and wicked while also weak and helpless at the same time.
It's also weird that Russia has been running out of ammunition for the last 5 years and is a weak enemy at the same time its able to fight a country supported by virtually the whole of west with NATO arms, NATO training and best of all NATO intelligence/spies with a sanction that was supposed to turn the "ruble" in to "rubble"