there is zero credibility of any information coming out of the region
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So all those images and videos of bombed out buildings, Russian corpses, destroyed military vehicles, etc have no credibility in your eyes? All part of some super fancy CGI on some Hollywood set?
There is a narrative being inserted into and along with the truth of the imagery.
MSM focus du jour, muddled high level negotiations, chaos, etc... reading imagery is like reading tea leaves sometimes there is a whole onion of layering that will probably never be made available to the public. Sometimes the narrative resembles the comedic lip syncing of a football game vids on YouTube... it is that blatantly obvious.
My great concern is who’s going to poke the bear, the bear might have stumbled into a honey farm, and the bees are stinging away.
Putin, like Khrushchev during the Cuban Missile crisis needed an out, to save face. A known enemy is probably better than the alternative so the JFK staff and cabinet offered Khrushchev a diplomatic resolution, an incentive package some of which remained classified.
Putin has a lot of Soviet blood running through his veins. Will there be an airspace violation? Will a former Soviet Bloc country decided they to wish to be part of NATO?
Would the press enjoy the glory another heroic war would bring to their cred? Bet on it.
Danny Rather was in country Vietnam quite a bit. Sam Donaldson, it was where all those 80s/90s/Y2K heroes of the News corporations cut their teeth.