I haven’t seen this before. It’s very accurate and clever. I hate it.

great comment, even

That’s true, but that does imply that this war would conclude first. Which is consistent with saying Russia does not want this conflict to expand beyond Ukraine.

I’m not arguing either of these points, I’m just pointing out that all NYT is saying here is that US officials have always believed that Russia wants this war to stay contained to Ukraine. Not that they think Russia didn’t want this war or that Russia doesn’t have other interests it will pursue external to this war.

All I’m saying is NYT didn’t really reveal anything here.

I’m not trying to get flamed as a lib here, but there’s a gulf of difference between “not wanting to expand the war” and “having no further ambition once the war is over”

the first sound plan I’ve seen on here

To be fair, they probably meant “this year, you reached 915 days with us”

Yes, and that’s okay 🏳️‍🌈

If he was purely expressing emotional vulnerability about the loss of his uncle in an otherwise nonadversarial conversation, probably.

If the context included anything about war, politics, military, or even just anything other than his mourning the loss of a family member, heck no.

That’s all fair, but framing the sequence of events as entirely unilateral action by the AfD is just as slanted as the article, and we’re better than that.

Probably a key piece of context is that they were invited