“If you were holding out hope that the media and military analysts predicting the imminent collapse of Russia because of the failed invasion of Ukraine would get a grip on reality, think again.”
No hope there but lots of hopium.
“No hope there but lots of hopium.”
No, they all knew. Once people understand that the target was taking down Russia, as EXPLICITLY stated by our government, then it didn’t matter if Ukraine got their butts whipped, only that we ‘weakened’ Russia somewhat.
...but too bad, unlike the US, Russia is run by ADULTS, so they understood this and were ready,