Yes, Absolutely!

And who would ever doubt it, that some shyster with no real education related to warfare and military balance would not write this excrement for CNN. Talk about coping gone completely off the scale.

CNN  — On Thursday Russia will celebrate Victory Day, its commemoration of the defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945. Domestically, this is nostalgia. In the 1970s, Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev created a cult of victory. Russia under Putin has continued the tradition. Abroad, this is intimidation. We are meant to think that Russia cannot lose. And far too many of us, during Russia’s war of aggression in Ukraine, have believed that. In February 2022, when Russia undertook its full-scale invasion of its neighbor, the consensus was that Ukraine would fall within days. Even today, when Ukraine has held its own for more than two years, the prevailing view among Russia’s friends in Congress and in the Senate is that Russia must eventually win. Moscow’s success is not on the battlefield, but in our minds. Russia can lose. And it should lose, for the sake of the world — and for its own sake. 

Right, right. Timothy Snyder's qualifications as any kind of military thinker are well explained in his C.V. 

Editor’s Note: Timothy Snyder is the Richard C. Levin Professor of History and Global Affairs at Yale University and the author of “Bloodlands,” “Black Earth,” “On Tyranny” and the forthcoming “On Freedom.” The views expressed in this commentary are his own. Read more CNN Opinion.

One should keep in mind that what SMO did apart from tearing NATO a new one, it exposed US Ivy League humanities "education" as nothing more than degree mills on the level of University of Phoenix, whose graduates and "professors" are nothing more than brainwashed hacks and propagandists. It is also worth pointing that this is the present and the future of Western "academe", which is a steady slide towards Idiocracy, while there are virtually no normal people working for US legacy media--top-bottom. So, you can sense Snyder's desperation. 

Now, since US Embassy in Russia paraded itself as ignorant hacks that they are (not-surprising looking at their "academic" backgrounds, with "professors" like Snyder...) and their Lend-Lease argument, here is my year old video on Lend-Lease.

It explains a lot in terms of this issue. But yesterday I erroneously posted "AI" generated meme on the White House press-secretary. I promptly removed it on the suggestion of our friends, but now, after Snyder's "piece", I think this meme is more than appropriate.

 

Keep in mind, this is a joke, but suddenly a very appropriate one. Truth is, this is how they teach history in Ivy League nowadays. In related news, if you listen to Russian experts, they will explain to you that it was actually Harvard which was leading a post WW II development of  Banderite ideology. Some record, eh?