It’s very strange how the person you are arguing with keeps insisting that because Putin says there should be a return to peace in Mali that means things are not going well for Russia. I don’t understand the logic there. Isn’t that what everyone always says when conflicts break out? That’s the standard diplomatic canned response. What, is he supposed to say “we want the fighting to continue”?
So strange how some people’s mind works. Although I don’t even think they came up with all of these talking points themselves. It seems there has been another co-ordinated dissemination of talking points in the pro-Ukrainian media and everyone who consumes that is now repeating the same things they heard, including about how Russia is supposedly losing ground in Ukraine.
They probably had all the messaging pre-prepared in anticipation of terrorists successfully overrunning the Mali government, and now they don’t quite know how to pivot.
Also reminds me how gleeful people were when ISIS overran Syria. It was all about getting one up on Russia, and nobody gave a shit about ethnic cleansing that followed. It’s really amazing how fast the mask falls off.
It’s very strange how the person you are arguing with keeps insisting that because Putin says there should be a return to peace in Mali that means things are not going well for Russia. I don’t understand the logic there. Isn’t that what everyone always says when conflicts break out? That’s the standard diplomatic canned response. What, is he supposed to say “we want the fighting to continue”?
So strange how some people’s mind works. Although I don’t even think they came up with all of these talking points themselves. It seems there has been another co-ordinated dissemination of talking points in the pro-Ukrainian media and everyone who consumes that is now repeating the same things they heard, including about how Russia is supposedly losing ground in Ukraine.
They probably had all the messaging pre-prepared in anticipation of terrorists successfully overrunning the Mali government, and now they don’t quite know how to pivot.
Also reminds me how gleeful people were when ISIS overran Syria. It was all about getting one up on Russia, and nobody gave a shit about ethnic cleansing that followed. It’s really amazing how fast the mask falls off.