>>213697529
I wonder if the West's pop culture image fed into Russia's own delusions. They attacked Ukraine with less than 200,000 men and expected them to just roll over.
>>509806567
Russians are really in a league of their own when it comes to moving the goalpost. A couple of kilometers in 2 years when they were bragging they could be in Warsawa in hours before the war.
>>509565890
The only reason the russia let go was because the russia was not able to hold on any longer during the collapse of the USSR empire
The moment some power was regained imperial behavior was restarted after 1991