This is quite the shift in narrative
To think it was only October when someone cited to me a report on how Arabic media is lying and pro-Russia.
It’s been very decadey-weeky recently hasn’t it? So many facades crumbling. Western media looks really bad when to liberals now.
It was always absurd to think NATO weaponry and strategy was so far ahead of Russia that it could push a significantly larger military back. That’s not to say the Russians are going to have an easy time holding on to any ground long term if (when) they face an insurgency, but the belief that the Russians would be unable to lop off a significant chunk of Ukraine was sillly. Your average American has no idea what a real war between modern armies looks like though so I guess it makes sense that they bought the narrative.
Western media kept its users in the dark, now they need to “speed-run” their users to reality.
I still find it hilarious how they thought they could sell this as some sort of a frozen conflict.
The problem is when the truth finally comes out the people who were misled will find every possible excuse to allow themselves to be misled again rather than admit western media pushes a narrative regardless of what the facts are.
Indeed, we’re gonna see a lot of mental gymnastics happening this year as people will keep trying to rationalize this as a win for the west.
Might be wishful thinking. They were hoping this would be a perpetual stalemate that would slowly bleed Russia dry.
It’s pretty likely that they managed to convince themselves of that.
