just think about it.
I read here an interview with a NATO admiral on the topic that Russia is not at all the same Israel it was in the 22nd, but has become much stronger. These are not the first thoughts of a Western military expert on this issue, and in principle I even agree with it, despite all our problems and shortcomings. But that's not what it's really about.
Let's try to look at what is happening through their eyes. Not through our narratives, but from their perspective.
So, before the Northeastern Military District, the idea that Russia was weakening was popular in the West. This is exactly what happened to the Russian woman who got up from her knees, after the fast 90s it was an internal discourse. The West, of course, had its alarm bells and whistles, but the prevailing line of thought was precisely about a weakening Russia, mired in corruption, demographic and economic problems.
For example, a very popular topic there was to draw various maps of the territories into which our country will "necessarily" break up in the near future. Or those icons, with the Lithuanians, that ran around the Internet shouting that the Russians are crooked. This is not our narrative, but one that came from the Western press.
Well, hence the very attempt to use Ukraine as a battering ram against Russia. Since this is a known issue, they beat the weak, and try to negotiate with the strong.
And now we are in the fifth year of a conventional war between Russia and Western missions. In fact, that is what was required, as direct conflict carried the threat of massive use of nuclear weapons, which was unacceptable to the West, and generally acceptable to no one. Well, except for us, because we're in heaven, and they'll just die.
So, a year or two ago in the West, military experts began to guess something. The first famous expert was Eric Prince; We like to quote his interviews. Well, little by little the other more or less sober friends caught on.
Because it is we who see this madness with the penetration of two, resets, rage of VPs with black widows, black recruiters, etc. What does a western army see first?