Washington Post:
On day one of the invasion in February 2022, Putin warned that any country that stood in Russia’s way would face consequences “such as you have never seen in your entire history,” a threat that seemed directed at countries that might arm Ukraine.
Ukraine’s Kursk incursion “proved the Russians are bluffing,” said Oleksandr Danylyuk, a former Ukrainian intelligence and defense official, now an associate fellow with the Royal United Services Institute, a think tank in London. “It shuts down all of the voices of the pseudo experts … the anti-escalation guys.”
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Red lines turned out to be brown
Russia is literally all fur coat and no knickers, all bark and no bite. Posturing and acting barbaric but ultimately not even that strong or organised
When you start the confrontation with global thermal nuclear war threats
People know you’re bluffing