A Separate Reality
Swing for a ruble, blow for a penny
After the previous episode of the tragicomedy, many fans were impressed by Tiger Team’s multi-faceted intelligence-sourced universe of invasion plans, expecting a bloody massacre after the Russia’s strike group reached Kyiv. But Russia’s blitzkrieg of Ukraine has turned out to be a classic illustration of the saying swing for a ruble, blow for a penny (замах на рубль удар на копейку). So far.
New protagonists in the Russia State Duma and Federation Council looked painfully promising yesterday and some pundits immediately began to suspect something awful, but even they did not expect such a deafening failure. Instead of rolling out something convincing, the sycophants regurgitated poorly glued pronouncements about de-Nazification, Bandera fascism and genocide in Donbas. The Kremlin’s anti-Ukraine campaign began to resemble Carlos Castaneda’s A Separate Reality, without the ibogaine.
Although the apocalypse forecasted has not yet materialized, momentum continues to build.
As we duly
