I love how it’s “Putin’s” offensive, as if he’s just playing HOI4 or something and making all the decisions, instead of you know, the Russian military command making the military decisions.
The narrative will never end. NATO will never consider Russia a censitary democracy in public, as that would undermine their propaganda. There is no autocracy in Russia, much less a dictactorship. But if they consider a censitary liberal democracy a autocracy, was 1914 france or 1950s america one of them, or were black people not humans for them?