News X World: Putin warns West of retaliation
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Hard to disagree with that. More worrying is that Putin surely has the intellectual capabilities to recognise that the perception is he hasn’t responded to various western escalations, had his bluff called several times in the 5 years – so must know these words carry limited menace? Or is he in too much of a chamber?
Russian society has got to work hard to make sure that western lies about them over the last 25 years don’t turn into a self-fulfilling bit of prophecy – a leader has to be held accountable for these ( thus far) fake threats, diplomacy going nowhere, escalations by the west of attacks into Russia, murkiness of how the SMO is going to end and what feasible objectives are available , and the messaging get less clearer and inconsistent each week – what Lavrov and Medvedev say appears to have little relation to the words and actions of the Russian President.
Rubio,Bessant,Vance and Co preach from the same hymnsheet as Trump’s policies, and the actions whatever one thinks of them, go with the statements
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