RickWA
Snagglesooth
In other words, “yes…Russia invaded it’s neighbors under two Democratic regimes and paused it during the intervening non-Democratic regime…but I got the DNC’s back on dis”.The expansionist logic of Russia’s imperialist aims (and the occupation of Crimea and much of the Donbas) never ceased. What changed was that Russia’s strategy temporarily shifted from military offensives against Ukraine to intelligence offensives to take advantage of the unprecedented (since the 1940s with the Soviets) support for Russia in the U.S. and particularly at the top levels, thus laying the groundwork for an offensive that would be launched when the U.S. and its allies were at their weakest (when Russia no longer could count on its dupe in the White House to continue making the U.S. weaker and weaker) … an offensive on a scale that would have been impossible in Obama’s time, before 4 years of Trumpism substantially altered the balance of power in Russia’s favor.
Propaganda.