Day 1306
So here's the story according to Bloomberg's unnamed "people close to the Kremlin" (who are definitely real and not just Putin's press secretary with a fake mustache): Vlad met Trump in Alaska, decided the orange man won't lift a finger for Ukraine, and is now bombing the shit out of everything because strategy.
Meanwhile, the Institute for the Study of War—those same brilliant minds who once declared Putin a "rational actor"—has helpfully explained that this Bloomberg leak is actually Putin's 4D chess move to... wait for it... psychologically manipulate Western audiences through strategic media placement.
Let's pause here. We're supposed to believe Putin—a man who invaded his neighbor because he was afraid of NATO expansion—is now playing subtle information warfare games through financial news outlets? The same Putin whose propaganda apparatus includes gems like "Ukrainian Nazi biothrowing mosquitoes"?
ISW breathlessly informs us that Putin "may have allowed these Kreml…
