Good news. Russia use same strategy all time everywhere for decades. I hate when it works according to their plan and people act surprise for the results: "Russia betrayed us", shocking
Putin's against the wall definitely may be even more erratic and nuts. Even when I thought those nuke moves are just BS, I'm pretty sure he will do something big enough to buy him time and a better chance to win that what he has now
The world has been nuclear for decades now. Self destruction is the only thing had proved to be able to stop crazy autocrats in the past.
Putin moves nukes, moves nukes closer to them, bend over and the escalation will be there and not just for rebuilding the USSR but considering the high...
We are in a point in the season where he has to do damage control and get us the 4 spot, we can argue about who to blame: Max, Fabio, Players, Pirlo but at this level we have to earn each point not matter what
He may be affected about everything because he hasn't been this bad in a while.... we know he's inconsistent but he's spent his share already for this season, it's like enough
Out of shape clearly. He was actually performing really good in the first part of the season, I think he'll be back to that because sitting back as we are playing now is what best suit him
Of course the West had many opportunities and options to execute with plenty time before the invasion... it wasn't like we wake up one morning and "look, 100k Russian troops came out of nowhere in Ukraine border and start to attack"
West have left Ukraine alone... they are trying to look good while doing that and praying for Putin be a good boy and don't go further than what they all already may have agreed
It's quite simple. Russian news are all fake, they are even well known as the fake news source in the world for god sake.
About the rest of the media, it's difficult to tell what is propaganda and what is facts but at least you can try to find it. Look Russia media for facts is like going into...