Michael Weiss: Ukrainians Have Shown There’s a Lot of Myth Making on Russian Military

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WEISS: “This is the so-called red lines that we keep talking about. Ukraine violates them. Russia does not escalate in the way that it has threatened to do. So it's dismantled the propaganda. But it is also physically hollowing out this great, shiny new Russian army that the former Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu claimed to have built. And, you know, I mean, one of the things that people like Alexei Navalny, the slain Russian opposition leader, would tell you before he died is that corruption in Putin's Russia has itself hollowed out every major institution, not least of all the military-industrial complex. So it's important not to take the Russian sort of Potemkin image of what they can do at face value. There's a lot of bluster. There's a lot of myth-making here.”