IF Russia wanted to create a pretext to escalate this war, what better way than to manufacture a false flag to justify it?
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This really doesn’t seem like the kind of escalation that would end well for Russia, albeit there will be a LOT of others to suffer. Putin would have to be in a very dark place to to shooting himself in the leg and basically toss the chess board in favor of destruction.
“This really doesn’t seem like the kind of escalation that would end well for Russia, albeit there will be a LOT of others to suffer. Putin would have to be in a very dark place to to shooting himself in the leg and basically toss the chess board in favor of destruction.”
If he is desperate enough...well, history is full of tyrants and dictators who decided they would not exit the stage meekly.