Mr. Putin is already planning for victory. His latest so-called peace proposal — in which Russia keeps occupied territory and Ukraine is banned from joining NATO — was dismissed as propaganda by many Western leaders. But it is, in fact, the most realistic scenario for how this war will pan out.
Such babybrained shit. I cannot read most of the NYT articles for this reason. The bit at the beginning about chicken kiev feels it’s straight out of a terrible novel.
A lot of these journalists seem to be failed or wannabe novelists, tbh. It’s why they always go for that “gonzo” style. “On a snowy October night, I was eating a microwaved burrito, when the editor called and ordered me to go meet some actually interesting people”
“As soon as I stepped outside, it started to rain. The droplets gathered on the ground and I had a profound realization. Gravity pulls things down. I wondered: Have the Chinese ever figured this out? No, surely not. The Russians? Not in a million years. But I, a white man living in New York writing for an imperialist publication, am the first to have ever had this realization. I quickly jotted my thought down on a used napkin, ignoring the properties of water that made it wet in the rain, and hurried to the patent office to get my scientific discovery recorded in the annals of capitalism.”
Dang, you got the chops already!
You also gotta love how they see themselves as the adults while infantilizing everyone else. It’s the whole rules based world order for you right there.
right? Its like these fellas are all failed novelists 😂