But President Joe Biden never planned for a war like this. The assumption was that Russia would quickly conquer much of the country, so the U.S. would be supporting a simmering, low-intensity Ukrainian insurgency
Saying the quiet part out loud now, are we.
Huh, almost makes you wonder if Russia, who seems to have been at least two steps ahead throughout all of this, is purposefully protracting the conflict because they know once they “win” the whole board changed in not necessarily a good way for them?