My first thought is that the people in charge need a way to pivot from "we've always been at war with East Asia" to "we've never been at war with East Asia" without waking too many people up from the TV trance.
"Whoops, All Nazis!" is just enough of a fig leaf, maybe, to pull off the transition.
The next question is, if we do back away from Ukraine, what new crisis will take center stage?
Gonzalo's take is pleasingly cynical and therefore probably correct. Politicians are quite happy to pretend to believe absurdities if it gives them the cover they need.
As to whether the Western public will go for it, of course they will. Remember when the NPCs pivoted on a dime from 'just the flu' to 'PANIC!' in March 2020? The media can reverse its narrative and the NPCs don't even notice.
I think it's possibly a crackpot attempt to burnish Ukraine's credentials and thus prove the Zelensky regime worthy of more support. I doubt the Washington brain trusts have any real understanding of the Ukraine/Russia situation. Nor do they appear to have any meaningful concern for European travails, and what those travails might mean for future relations. The one relatively sober Rand analysis was an outlier.
My first thought is that the people in charge need a way to pivot from "we've always been at war with East Asia" to "we've never been at war with East Asia" without waking too many people up from the TV trance.
"Whoops, All Nazis!" is just enough of a fig leaf, maybe, to pull off the transition.
The next question is, if we do back away from Ukraine, what new crisis will take center stage?
Gonzalo's take is pleasingly cynical and therefore probably correct. Politicians are quite happy to pretend to believe absurdities if it gives them the cover they need.
As to whether the Western public will go for it, of course they will. Remember when the NPCs pivoted on a dime from 'just the flu' to 'PANIC!' in March 2020? The media can reverse its narrative and the NPCs don't even notice.
I think it's possibly a crackpot attempt to burnish Ukraine's credentials and thus prove the Zelensky regime worthy of more support. I doubt the Washington brain trusts have any real understanding of the Ukraine/Russia situation. Nor do they appear to have any meaningful concern for European travails, and what those travails might mean for future relations. The one relatively sober Rand analysis was an outlier.
Seymour Hersh's story got no coverage in the MSM...
The "Intelligence Report" will certainly get propagated...
"Six people in a Boat Did It" is Highly Credible ?
The story is a medium for a message, but i'm not sure that
it's readying us to accept throwing Ukraine under A Bus...