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My personal impression, after very closely following this proxy war, is this: The Russian decision makers deal with the reality of armed conflict AS IT IS, making rational, informed decisions. The US and its vassal Ukraine try to create a narrative, fictional reality, hoping that eventually this fiction will become real (e.g., maybe there will be a popular uprising in Russia; maybe the entire Russian armed forces will panic in awe of our superior propaganda; etc). I too have noted the strange admission about Russian superior electronic jamming capabilities in the Western legacy propaganda press. Thank for providing a possible explanation for this strange admission.

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"More importantly, subtly preconditioning pro-Kiev supporters not to place all their hopes in this latest 'wunderwaffe'."

Even more importantly, preconditioning and preparing everyone to justify upgrading less adequate and ageing aircraft — F-16s? — to make full use of the potential investing them in the Ukraine logically requires.

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