Charitably, they put “51st state” in quotes because they realize Russia at least doesn’t have 50 equivalent analogues to states and are just using it as a shorthand for Russia taking control of the US and adding it to the Russian Federation as an oblast or something.
Yeah, they probably didn’t actually think that Russia had 50 states. Still, it is notable that their example of “Russian conquest” is to use a common refrain people in the US have about conquering other countries. There’s no country more bloodthirsty than the US, and they think that every country other than them is more bloodthirsty.
Charitably, they put “51st state” in quotes because they realize Russia at least doesn’t have 50 equivalent analogues to states and are just using it as a shorthand for Russia taking control of the US and adding it to the Russian Federation as an oblast or something.
Yeah, they probably didn’t actually think that Russia had 50 states. Still, it is notable that their example of “Russian conquest” is to use a common refrain people in the US have about conquering other countries. There’s no country more bloodthirsty than the US, and they think that every country other than them is more bloodthirsty.