Putin does this every years...and the west goes nuts every year.
Too many boys missed their mamas. Too many mamas missed their boys.
According to the Art of War, the advice and corollaries of the advice:
Appear strong, when negotiating. Build up the appearances of your forces.
Appear weak, when about to attack. Start pulling them back.... can just use regular troop rotation as the underlying cause, and then tout it as pulling back.
Lol...didn’t he just add ten thousand troops to the border a week ago?
Keeping Troops sitting on alert for weeks is never a good plan. Especially around the holidays. It’s also very expensive to an economy that barely bigger than Texas’.
Russian troops want to be home for Orthodox Christmas-January 7.
The whole thing was a bluff anyway.
Check Hunter Biden’s bank account.
Hi.
In my secret poll I asked 20 oligarchs from three countries. All bordering on each other a question. Not a yes or no answer acceptable...
“Do you think that Vlad is going to invade Ukraine?”
All 20 said nyet, bad for business.
5.56mm
Putin ‘effing with a vegetable.
If you look on a map of Russian force bases that may not be all that far depending on the units involved.
See here for Russian bases and forces in Ukraine region
https://informnapalm.org/en/intelligence-data-on-1st-and-2nd-army-corps-of-russian-federation-in-occupied-donbas/
Russian Military Forces: Interactive Map
https://www.gfsis.org/maps/view/russian-military-forces
So how much money did Biden slip them under the table?
Old (Julian) Calendar Orthodox Christmas is January 7.
The most intense period of the pre-Christmas Nativity Fast began on the Feast of St. Spyridon, which on the Gregorian Calendar was December 25.