Ukraine’s punch through Russian defenses in the first foreign invasion since
World War II has laid bare Moscow’s apparently illusory red lines.

By Robyn Dixon and Catherine Belton
August 24, 2024 at 8:42 a.m. EDT

Ukraine’s resistance to Russia’s invasion keeps crossing President Vladimir
Putin’s red lines.

Kyiv’s lightning incursion into Kursk in western Russia this month slashed
through the reddest line of all — a direct ground assault on Russia — yet
Putin’s response has so far been strikingly passive and muted, in sharp contrast
to his rhetoric earlier in the war.

On day one of the invasion in February 2022, Putin warned that any country that
stood in Russia’s way would face consequences “such as you have never seen in
your entire history,” a threat that seemed directed at countries that might arm
Ukraine.

If Russia’s territorial integrity were threatened, “we will certainly use all
the means at our disposal to protect Russia and our people. It’s not a bluff,”
he said a few months later in September. “The citizens of Russia can be sure
that the territorial integrity of our Motherland, our independence and freedom
will be ensured — I emphasize this again — with all the means at our disposal,”
making a clear reference to Russia’s nuclear weapons.

But Ukraine’s punch through Russian defenses in the first foreign invasion since
World War II exposed Russia’s military flaws and laid bare Moscow’s apparently
illusory red lines.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/08/24/putin-red-lines-war-ukraine/

"such as you have never seen in your entire history" — *HA HA HA HA HA HA*! So
*that's* where Trump gets it! How many times have we heard Trump blabber "the
likes of which you've never seen"? *Dozens*.

And of course, now we know why Trump so admires Putin: they're both feckless
cunt cowards.

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