A fifteen-year-old Ukrainian woman, while driving with her father in Berdyansk, had taken out an invader’s tank with a molotov cocktail.

Source: Twitter (@DecodingTrolls)


One sentence. A fifteen-year-old. A Molotov cocktail. A tank destroyed. The brevity is the point — no editorialising needed. In the Ruschist mental model, Ukraine is “weak, emotional, easily led.” This girl was none of those things. She was driving with her father and she took out a tank.


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