Larry On Neocons...

 ... and Washington. 

Kupchan, in my view, is a precise barometer of the philosophical and political ideology directing U.S. policy towards Russia and Ukraine. These people — e.g., Sullivan, Blinken, Nuland and Kupchan — really believe that Russia is an impoverished, ravaged nation barely hanging on and nothing yet has shaken them of that belief. They are convinced that if Ukraine can pull off a military miracle that Russia will collapse. This mindset is not only crazy, it is dangerous. It grossly underestimates Russia’s capability and determination to achieve its stated goals of demilitarizing and de-nazifying Ukraine and rests heavily on the false assumption that Russia does not have the economic power to sustain its military effort.

Yes, they ARE that ignorant, lacking serious professional skills required if not for genuine statesmanship at least for basic analysis. It is also, highly likely, the symptom of mass-psychosis characteristic of medieval religious hysterics by illiterate masses incapable of understanding natural phenomena.