>>46780
I can imagine that the drone video was cut together from the recent Karabakh conflit, Azeri drones destroying Armenian targets. I can imagine even from unreleased footage.
>where do we stop adding layers of fraudulence?
This is a good question but at a certain point it becomes redundant.
0. Creating a real video to influence people.
1. Creating a fake video to influence people - reasonable possibility
2. Creating a fake video to make people believe they are influenced by fake videos. - still within the limits of reasonable possibilities, creating doubt in the videos they see. Could be done by Russians for example, or trolls, or even pro-Ukrainian propagandist to turn people to "trusted" sources like big western media which confirms what they see.
3. Creating a fake video to deceive people into thinking that they are mislead to believe that someone made a fake video to influence them - uhh wait, am I writing this right? I dunno about this, why not just remaining at the first trick? Although it can serve to lower the level of trust.
4. This step I won't write. It is unnecessary, and would serve no purpose. If someone gets here in the fakery, he could have just stick at #2.

>>46781
>not like the west will backtrack the financial crackdown anyway.
Yeah, they probably wouldn't.
Also if Russia stops now, they will be humiliated. Unless they get some extremely good concessions that aren't proportionate with the situation how western media paints it.
After the US/NATO withdrawal from Afghanistan, when half the world laffed at their failure, and taunted their flee with helicopters, they probably want to show how weak Russia is. Turn the tables, direct the light onto them.
I think for Putin, there is only one way: forward.