sansfoy wrote: ↑Sun Apr 02, 2023 4:09 pm
I checked in on his Twitter and he still "continues to be convinced," is "steongly persuaded," etc that Russia is going to overpower Ukraine any day now. He's also very fond of his own genius, resurecting the one post in 20 from way back when that hasn't yet been thoroughly debunked.
Does the guy still do apologetics these days, or is he all in on weird, uninformed geopolitical takes?
If you remember that William Schryver is a frustrated midwit who, to his credit, is always trying to punch above his weight, it all comes together with regard to his motivations to swing like Babe Ruth on everything. He’s a deeply frustrated man who
wants to be the Man, but he’s pulled back to reality by his nature and circumstances, so he’s like so many other libertarianconservativemormonmen who are a mishmash of ideals that result in a frustrated impotency that used to be confined to friends, family, and associates. But alas, social media happened and now fairly normal people are treated to their links and screenshots. Blegh.
Anyway. Muscovy. The situation in Ukraine is misrepresented by social media here and state media there, but can’t change the fact that it’s been a disaster in every conceivable metric for their country. They’re moving towards a military defeat. Due to
so many factors* they couldn’t advance in Donetsk, Kherson, Kharkiv, Kiev, and so on. Worse, and because Putin was totally unprepared for the world’s response, he got the Muscovites into a long, protracted war, which their economy was totally not unprepared to sustain (hence the sPeCiAl OpErAtIoN wishful thinking or whatever). The Muscovites, their army, their political system, their infrastructure, and most importantly the men and women who comprise their armed forces weren’t ready for war in Ukraine.
- Doc
* alcoholism, drug use, the collapse of their educational system, rampant cronyism, culturally corrupt and violent, inept and selfish leadership, a military that reflects those cultural values, a complete and utter disregard for life, and lying as a virtue that’s so ingrained into their way of life the only way to control it is through fear.