I'm a Democrat. I'm enjoying a debate on The Sietch because
@Agent23 and
@Chiron are being beaten so badly in the debate. Like, step up your Nazi game people, you don't want people to actually start thinking you're a reasonable debate forum or something, do you?
If these are paid Russian shills and not useful idiots, Russia's wasting its money so badly. You'd think there would be much stronger issues to harp on when the US is bringing back fucking lend lease. Like, just argue we're playing chicken with a nuclear power and need to back the fuck off from a war Russia considers existential or something. It's not hard to make a coherent argument for staying the fuck away, but no, you have to argue that an operation intended to take less than a week relying on collaborators that didn't exist due to the whole bribery operation being embezzled is somehow going as Russia planned.
Almost nobody in the West expected this to happen. It's not surprising Russians didn't either. You generally had either "Russia won't invade, because invasions are super hard and Russia would have trouble" or "Russia will invade and win pretty easily" before the war actually happened. It's not hard to see
why Russia didn't expect another corrupt oligarchy with a president who had a 25% approval rating might not be particularly good at a major war. The people who predicted this were both rare and generally disregarded.