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> the Russians are not stupid

Arrogance is one hell of a drug. It's entirely possible that Russia believed its own propaganda and thought they would be welcomed as liberators by the Ukrainian people. The US literally did the same thing in the war in Iraq.

With the number of lies the Russian state throws out on a daily basis I'm sure it's hard to keep things straight.




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