If you don’t invade a neighboring country, drop bombs and artillery on the civilian population, and cause a refugee crisis the chances of your troops being subjected to this sort of thing drop to zero.
You must have missed the first rule of Putinism: It’s never their fault. Like Democrats and children they never take responsibility for anything. Ever.
Putin is like an abusive husband. He smacks his woman around and then screams “now look what you made me do!”
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And you must have missed the First Rule of the Deep State:
Trust the Narrative, like Democrats and Children.
As they say, "There's a fool born every minute!", and most of 'em have already jumped on the WW3 bandwagon (it's a popular place to be right now ;>), ready to go to war over a country most people can't find on a map...