The MSM narrative is, that its all but assured Russia will "invade" Ukraine, possibly taking the whole country (by taking Kyiv the capitol). Even worse speculation is that Russia might move on the near abroad- like Latvia and Lithuania ,to push back NATO. A major escalation worse still, would be a strategically important Swedish Island.

This would be borderline WW3 contagion scenario, engulfing europe. With such chaos in that theater, the assumption is China makes its moves concurrently. Throw in an NK/ran flex because why the hell not. They're conditioning us for a 3-front shit show.

Today, it started being painted that Germany cares more about their energy deal than this (who can blame them?).

There isn't much deviation from this even in friendly media, with maybe a few voices pointing out its not our problem.

What Russia itself seems to be discussing, is recognizing these actually-Russian parts east of the river as independent states. They then could support the expel of the Deep State/Ukraine forces from only these parts, under the flag of separatism (and leaving Kiev alone). They are mostly held anyway by separatists forces now anyway, so the presence of Russian force on the border would be to deter any aggression against those.

At play is that part of the world's Lockheed, Motor Sich. and interesting side-item of note in all this.

Q though leads me to not believe any of this in reality. Only the deep state wants war, no one else. This is all a show because patriots are in control. To what end is anyones guess.

My guess is, the (planned) Biden flub excused Russia recognizing these independent states. So they can easily tell fake Ukraine to fuck off (in the process crushing the deep state puppet regime's legitimacy in that country). With all that being so anti-climactic, the focus can then shift to crushing China's aspirations for a forced capture of Taiwan... resulting in CCP internal regime change once we get our own POTUS declas -> storm speaker.