so instead they admit they're incompetent by having military planes and helos fall out of the sky, and military medical care so incompetent their senior officers are dropping dead left & right? it's a lose-lose, but i feel like they somehow managed to pick the worst option. at least with admitting russia turned them to giblets you can go for the swift revenge angle, and ramp up the propaganda with 50 russian generals getting killed or some such bullshit. but with the other option you just look pathetic.
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