I don’t think that bit hasn’t changed either. I think Putin made another one of those “Ukraine is historically Russian” statements, while completely ignoring the time when it wasn’t Russia.
Part of the game is to put out many conflicting statements attached to as many opinions from state funded talking heads as possible.
I believe that when I researched last, the statement about Russia being able to take Ukraine “in three days” actually came from propagandists and I never found an official statement about it. Regardless, the point is that is gives the government plausible deniability with any statement if it was “accidentally taken out of context” by the state media.
it’s certainly a change from their declaration that Ukraine isn’t a country and Ukrainians are actually Russians
I don’t think that bit hasn’t changed either. I think Putin made another one of those “Ukraine is historically Russian” statements, while completely ignoring the time when it wasn’t Russia.
Part of the game is to put out many conflicting statements attached to as many opinions from state funded talking heads as possible.
I believe that when I researched last, the statement about Russia being able to take Ukraine “in three days” actually came from propagandists and I never found an official statement about it. Regardless, the point is that is gives the government plausible deniability with any statement if it was “accidentally taken out of context” by the state media.
or the more hilarious: when russia was ukraine
(though i haven’t done much research; that could be a funny little “kinda but it’s more complex” quirk to history)