Russian officials have repeatedly portrayed the West as the aggressor in the war in Ukraine in order to avoid blame and justify further rhetorical and kinetic provocations against its European neighbors.
Russian officials have also repeatedly sought to deter European officials from taking defensive military actions against Russian provocations as part of Russia’s ongoing effort to push the limit of what provocations NATO is willing to absorb as an “acceptable” escalation. x.com/TheStudyofWar/status/1971737459781247436
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