Honestly, I think escalation is Ukraine's goal. They want Russia to escalate in order to force NATO to get involved. Or at least they believe NATO would get involved in Russia escalates.
If it was obvious, people might start to think an extreme reaction from Russia was justified. They need Russia to suspect it was them while maintaining plausible deniability for western media that want to say it was ISIS.
Honestly, I think escalation is Ukraine's goal. They want Russia to escalate in order to force NATO to get involved. Or at least they believe NATO would get involved in Russia escalates.
So Ukraine decided to implicate themselves through a Muslim proxy?
Doesn't make any sense. If escalation was their goal they would just do it.
If it was obvious, people might start to think an extreme reaction from Russia was justified. They need Russia to suspect it was them while maintaining plausible deniability for western media that want to say it was ISIS.
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