>>63973224The problem is that it's unironically what many russians believed. Fuck, some still do. It's not even that crazy of a concept, the russians are certainly not the first nor the only people who are completely beyond parody.
It also doesn't help when their own government officials also go on record saying retarded shit like proposing to nuke all euro capitals and the US.
>but anon those guys' words aren't worth shit, they're utterly powerlessgovernmentally wise, yes, they don't matter. But it's not hard to find similar comments in russian speaking websites. Those aren't just "haha silly duma saying silly duma things", they are echoing opinions that really exist in the russian speaking world, and said opinions are not even that fringe.
Like, holy shit, that kind of "rossiya stronk, euros weak, first we take ukraine then we take poland" attitude was straight up mainstream in the first weeks of the invasion.