buffnut453
Captain
Undoubtedly true. But that's the problem when you fabricate an alternate reality...it inevitably gets further and further from actual reality, and you end up looking stoopid: to wit, Baghdad Bob.
Putin and his cronies must KNOW that NATO isn't going to conduct offensive operations against Russia, and yet NATO is one of the bogeymen he uses to whip up anti-western hysteria.
They also must KNOW that Zelensky is acting on his own cognition and not because western leaders are telling him to do things...indeed, it's more the other way round where western leaders are asking Zelensky for what he needs and helping to reinforce Ukrainian objectives for the fight rather than dictating terms of their own.
Unfortunately, in such alternate realities, the default approach is to refuse any opportunity for your parallel universe to be questioned, either by solely appearing on media platforms that endorse your view or by applying the "fake news" label to anything that contradicts you.
We can only hope that, at some point (preferably as soon as possible), Putin and his vile toadies go the way of their illustrious forebear from Iraq.