You are of course entirely correct.
I suppose the would-be-good-for-Putin take relies on a limited conflict with the US, which feels unlikely at best.
That Russia’s conventional armed forces is entirely outclassed in every conceivable way by the US, virtually guarantees that it wouldn’t stay conventional.
Ahh, interesting, so the English version is not just a translation then, but rather a very different version, is that right? Very cynical, for the same new agency to write different articles for different audiences.
In that case I would think a fair bit of information could be extracted from the difference between the different versions, even for someone who is more likely to trust an official Russian news source.
Unfortunately it also means that my window into the Russian media landscape is less clear than i hoped.
Thank you!
I am very open to any recommendation for sources from within Russia, whether for or against the war. I don’t know Russian, unfortunately.