Russia doesn’t want to go to war with Europe, but if comes to war, Russia is much more prepared for it. From Simplicius at simplicius76.substack.com:
It’s just that…he was merely answering a journalist’s question.
Another day and another internet-breaking Putin conference wherein the Russian leader has voiced some headline-grabbing words.
As per usual, the Western MSM machine has glommed onto the statements as if Putin had woken up that day and decided to declare war on Europe. But in reality the statements as per usual were merely responses to questions from journalists, and not some kind of ‘prepared’ announcement as signal to Europeans.
But the far more interesting aspect was what Putin revealed in the fuller statement, in accordance with things we’ve discussed here many times: that a Russian-European war would not resemble that of the Ukrainian one.
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