New York Post By News.com.au
Russian President Vladimir Putin cannot accept that his incompetent army has failed in its invasion of Ukraine.
So he’s desperately trying to spin a story to his people that they’re already at war with the West.
First, Putin insisted his invasion was to “de-nazify” the Kyiv-based Ukraine government – despite President Volodymyr Zelensky being a Jew.
Then, once his three-day invasion began dragging on for months, his war was recast as a “holy crusade” battling the “forces of Satan”.
Now, as the conflict approaches its third year, Putin is having to find a fresh argument to appease a general public struggling to come to grips with a horrific death toll.
“ Ukraine itself is not our enemy ,” Putin told a soldier while visiting a hospital for war wounded. “Those who want to destroy Russian statehood and to achieve a strategic defeat of Russia on the battlefield are mainly in the West.”
Voice of Ukraine 