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Dec 18 • 9 tweets • 5 min read
🧵 This brilliant NYT report on Putin's cascading catastrofuck in Ukraine is a must-read.

Nothing we didn't know before in some sense, but puts it all in one place and adds a lot of meat to the bones.
nytimes.com/interactive/20…
As I and others have consistently pointed out, nothing that has happened to date has changed Putin's imperial goals, and no amount of losses or sanctions will have an impact in the future: Image
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#pt Thread of threads:
Secondly, the NYT report yet again underlines that Putin believes all his own propaganda, including about Ukrainian Nazis, and ranted about it to then-Israeli PM Bennett in Oct. 2021: Image
Putin truly believes the West will blink first and will stop supporting Ukraine, so none of his political-military fuckups matter in the long run. It's a game of chicken and he's willing to lose a million Russians and destroy Russia until that happens: Image
There is no real opposition to going to fight for Russia, as Zaluzhnyi said last week, despite everything.

Even the mobiks that got fucked up in pointless assaults are happy to be sent back into Ukraine for the sake of the Tsar and Mother Russia:

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The US actively tried to protect Gerasimov from Ukraine, because they are clowns.

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Putin is absolutely obsessed with his imperial legacy and personal genius, and everything that has happened since 2014 has been his idea alone: ImageImage

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Let this be a lesson not to tweet while super drunk. However, while taking the L, I want to clarify my “thought process” here: Image
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