On 11 August 2025 US president Donald Trump said “The Russians would have been in Kyiv in 4 hours if they went down the highway. But a Russian general decided to go through the farmland” during a press conference at the White House. On this video from February-March 2022 you can see massive Russian columns moving right on the main M-01 highway coming from Russia to Kyiv, and destroyed by Ukrainian forces right on the highway. This is a textbook example of Russian narratives being internalised among the Western political elites who apparently simply still can't believe that the "second army of the world" could be so miserably defeated by smaller, but much better commanded and better motivated Ukrainian army.