Yeah sure. Those 130.000 Rrussian soldiers, tanks, artillery and other equipment have been sitting at the borders for decades.
Or, hear me out :
- Russia is using it's yearly February military exercise as a massive psyop to drive up oil/gas prices and rack-in reserves, all the while peacefully breaking NATO cohesion.
- Their US opposites play ball to drive their own profits up, prop-up their voting demographic, justify trillion dollar military budget pork and gravy, as traditional media follows suit to save itself from oblivion, seeing how viewership tanked last 2 years.
Meanwhile, worldwide economy is slowly going round the drain of a major inflationary shock.