Notice the moving goalposts.
First it was the fact that the war has been going on for a long time.
Second it was “no one” predicted a quick victory. When proven wrong on that he moves the goal posts.
Then it became Putin didn’t predict a quick victory.
Now you’ve disproven that.
Can’t wait to hear the next false claim.
Personally I assumed it would be over quickly, that
Russia would succeed in taking the capitol which would be the fall of the country and then would require some Russian mopping up of renegade resistance.
Even after that didn’t work for what we thought was the second best army in the world, it was still a surprise this past year or so when even the Russia backers started thinking that Russia couldn’t take Odessa and that it would remain Ukrainian.
I think almost all of us assumed that Odessa would have been taken fairly quickly.
Here is Putin being OK with Ukraine joining NATO since they are their own sovereign country.
https://x.com/NatalkaKyiv/status/1844559042691334237