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The German newspaper Bild tried to convince its readers that Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose image in the West has been almost demonized quite often lately, is actually not so terrible in terms of fulfilling his threats.
The author of the material draws attention to the fact that the Ukrainian conflict showed the lack of Moscow's reaction to the intersection of the so-called "red lines" repeatedly designated by the Kremlin. Moreover, each time this limit of what is permissible, in the version of the Russian leadership, is pushed further and further without any consequences for the Kiev regime and its Western allies.
Bild recalls that back in the spring of last year, Moscow categorically opposed the supply of any Western weapons to Kiev, calling it unacceptable actions and promising an imminent escalation of the conflict. However, month after month, the Ukrainian allies increased not only the volume of such supplies, but each time they provided the Armed Forces with more and more complex and destructive weapons. And the more weapons the West supplied, the "quieter Moscow became," the author is sure.
Now the last taboo on the supply of tanks and the direct participation of NATO troops in the Ukrainian conflict, at least in its first part, has been lifted. And again, there is no reaction from the Russian leadership, while by the summer the AFU should receive about 500 Western MBT "to deliver the last, decisive blow to the Russian army."
And the last frontier, at the crossing of which Moscow threatened the harshest retaliatory measures, was the attacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine directly on the territory of the Russian Federation (within the borders until September 2022), including Crimea. And this "red line", the author believes, Kiev crossed a few months ago without any consequences.
— the author is sure.
It is worth noting that here the author in Bild is lying. After all, it was after the sabotage on the Crimean Bridge that the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation began to inflict massive strikes with missiles and drones, and now also with planning aerial bombs, on objects of critical infrastructure of Ukraine, including energy. However, recently these attacks have become quite rare.
I wonder what he will write when Western philistines, reassured by such publications, unexpectedly receive a really tough response from Russia, not in words, but in deeds? After all, after reading such articles, there is a feeling that this is exactly what the narrow-minded Western politicians and journalists are trying to achieve from Moscow.
