@randahl Has Putin got him by the short and curlies?
@randahl @Blotreport
I don't have any definite proof — I don't even have any plausible theory to explain why he does it, but he obviously spreads some of the Kremlin's talking points from time to time.
And I completely agree with this: https://twitter.com/davidfrum/status/1580001641939750912
I don't think that anyone in the West outside of some tankie think tanks maybe, could've come up with such wording. This "Khruschev's mistake" indeed looks like a planted phrase to me.