Lol sure bud. But I guess the great cabal of almost every country on earth and ... Wikipedia editors ... Are suppressing the truth: Russia is the good guy and it was forced to do imperialism for the good of "ethnic Russians" (which is happily mulches into Ukraine's fields)
I'm sorry, notaglobalsuperpower says what?
Because until Russia invaded Ukraine, Russia had convinced most of the world, including itself, that it was a near-peer to the US like China. Most people in the west and elsewhere, myself and putin included, expected Russia to completely steamroll over Ukraine in a matter of days to weeks.
... But then we got to watch as they paradropped elite troops into the middle cities, forgot that tanks needed infantry support, experienced logistical failures a mile from the border, started depleting stockpiles that were supposedly much deeper, and began conscripting undesirables for a meatgrinder ...
Russia is big and has a lot of nukes, people, and equipment: but it's no soviet union. If the new narrative is that the third largest power on the planet is equal to Italy and that somehow makes you feel better: sure.
The 3 day war is crazy man... It's like a dudebro getting out of his lifted pavement-princess pickup truck with the express intent to stomp on an anthill to prove how strong he is only to get swallowed whole into the earth and eaten alive.
Oh no, how dare the government pressure a private company to censor objectively false and deadly misinformation during a public health crisis and foreign disinformation campaigns that triggered a lethal insurrection ... Thank god we don't have that tyrannical dictator anymore: now we just pull statistics off public websites and try to get comedians the president doesnt like fired; back to what the founders envisioned!
Look at what the left has done to this country! Don't they have any respect for our public servants? There used to be a time when they could just go lynch a mothafucka for fun, as a way to unwind after work; but no more. They have no respect for our time-honored traditions. Now they have to take a forced vacation after? Cruel and unusual, I tell you!
Big surprise: the "support our troops" crowd never gave a fuck about them. Just like how they support gun ownership, and free speech, and religion, the unborn, free markets, the rule of law, family, small government, peace, democracy, personal liberty, civility, ....
Almost as if it's all just empty, hollow rhetoric they use to beat people over the head with to further their agenda without meaningfully addressing.
I think genocide is disgraceful but sorry about that eh