Your passive-aggression. If this turns out to be another example of Ukrainian misbehavior, then my question turns out to be more like a logical question than, like, "weird." I mean, wouldn't a thinking person governed by reason voice skepticism by that point?
Keep going with the Russkie sympathizer accusations. Personally, I think Cole is a budding, 21st century Lindbergh when it comes to autocratic creeps. You got him dead to rights.