And this means, that they are perforce inaccurate about the state of mind of the Russian government?
The Biden (mal)administration’s antics when facing a peer-or-better, nuclear-armed adversary, remind me of that black teen rapper a week or so ago, who accidentally fatally shot himself in the head while grandstanding with a pistol for a video.
The consequences of being glib about a nuclear armed enemy are too grave to allow the usual autofellatory smug DC “because Ivy League” grad circle jerk.
Russia is not a peer for the US let alone NATO. Those butt monkeys can’t even take on Ukraine.