Thread by @BonicMichael

Jake Sullivan on This Week said the partial mobilization of 300,000 reservists are signs that Russia is weak & that Putin has lied to his people calling it a “special military operation” when as Biden said it’s a war of conquest and that Putin wants to

2/extinguish Ukraine’s right to exist. Martha Raddatz doesn’t think the 300,000 troops will make any difference. Washington is hoping the people of Russia will orchestrate a coup and that the Russian people will opt for democracy.

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3/The Western view - US, NATO/EU & Ukraine - is that Putin is bent on conquest which won't end w/ Ukraine but will spill over to the Baltics, Poland & Eastern Europe. Therefore he must be stopped at all costs. 👇
Understood.

4/Understand this: The West has its collective head so far up its #aa it's not seeing REALITY properly. It's NOT a "war of conquest". Western leaders cannot even properly assimilate the content of Putin's speech 👆. The fact Sullivan said Putin lied to the Russian people by

5/calling it a "special military operation" (the US believes it's a "war of conquest") AFTER PUTIN EXPLAINS in his speech 👆the original reason for the "special military operation", and how US-NATO pouring billions of $$$ of military aid into Ukraine became a game changer

6/necessitating the partial mobilization of 300,000 reservists to 'match strength' shows Washingtons inability to properly assimilate reality. The JV Squad is running Washington. Sullivan says Russia will suffer if it uses nukes but that's rhetorical bluster. The West is CLUELESS

7/as to what Putin is doing, though HE JUST TOLD THE WORLD. The rest of the world sees exactly what's going on. Washington will look on in bewilderment and the MSM will go into a frenzy after the referenda are completed the war escalates massively as Russia begins 'consolidating'

8/Donetsh, Luhansk, Zaporizhia and Kherson that'll link Crimea to Russia. This will deny the West's attempt to consolidate Crimea into Ukraine and redraw the lines on the map. The West won't recognize these lines, which will inevitably lead to NATO missiles attacking these

9/these territories...We're on a path where NATO may soon be at full-scale war w/ Russia. Whether Russia feels it must resort to using tactical nukes time will tell. But the fact Washington doesn't comprehend the actual situation and is divorces from reality means WW3 is possible

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