1) “Ha! Ha! Ha! Russia is weak! Russia cannot win its little war against Ukraine! The Russian army is hopeless!”
2) “Ha! Ha! Ha! Russia in a civil war! Putin has fled! The whole country is about to collapse!”
3) “Hey, my big concern is that Russia will invade Lithuania and start a hot war with everyone in NATO. Gotta get ready for the Russian steamroller into western Europe.”
Well with Russia claiming the right to unilaterally revoke the sovereignty of its neighbors it makes sense to take the threat seriously.
“Russia is weak!.....Gotta get ready for the Russian steamroller into western Europe.”
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The cognitive dissonance is large on this one.
Russian cheerleaders are naive if they think Russia will stop at Ukraine
Are you willing to guess how the Russians will miscalculate again?
Remember a few days ago when the FR Youkasphere erupted in mass almost-orgasm over the Wagner "rebellion" bit? There was one self-assured, breathless post and comment after the other about how Wagner was on its way to topple Hitler V Putin. They're 300Km from Moscow! They're 200Km from Moscow!!!! They're 120 Km from Moscow!! Oh-ooh-oh-yes oh-yes oh-oh-OHHHHHHHHHH!!!! Then, like your mom walking in on you having "fun" with your gal when you were a teenager, pfft. . . . fun over.
Bwahahaha!
A few weeks earlier, FR Youkazoids were almost monolithic in believing the fantasy that Wagner had been essentially destroyed in Bakhmut. Yet, there it was, a few weeks later, magically resurrected and racing to Moscow to topple Putin?
In fact, the FR Queen Of the Youkazoids put up a typical fantasy post after Bakhmut was captured by Wagner that screeched, "Wagner Has Fled From Bakhmut!!! or something to that effect." Just totally nuts. And that was days after it became clear, by any objective measure, that Wagner had flayed the Youcraynian Army to pieces there.
Actually Lithuania concern is that a mad Tsar wannabe may want to incorporate Lithuania into the Tsardom of Muscowy again