Konyok, look at the ways the theater of it could be bent to fit every single anti-American meme.

And publicized by western media. Putin sits back for hundreds of days of saying “I warned you, I told you so, but here, I will negotiate with the irregulars for you, just be patient”. Him large, powerful, serious, we frightened (tv interviews with angry families of hostages, back in Kansas), overconcerned with our own, underconcerned with natives, in media imagery.