Kwozyman

Apple laptop, really?

Makes for a more believable lie and muddies the waters. Or, again, they might simply be completely insane.

One theory is that he is seeking escalation with a NATO country. Reasoning being that some small scale clash with NATO would feed into the narrative at home that Russia has been fighting against NATO all this time and, counterintuitively this would be a convenient off ramp. He didn’t lose against Ukraine, he stalemated against the whole NATO. Or he is simply insane.