it is irrelevant to the subject here.
Then you shouldn't have raised it.
You brought to the discussion the absurd nonsense that a person who hasn't visited a place cannot know about that place.
It's untrue. You know it's untrue. You agree, now, that it's untrue. But you tried it on, because you hoped everyone else was stupid. Which is hardly a good way to build trust. Nobody here takes you seriously anymore. What little trust and respect you once had, you have long since squandered with your daft adherence to the internally inconsistent propaganda that has been pouring out of Moscow since Mad Vlad Putin decided that his neighbour was too weak to resist invasion - and got an object lesson in how pride goeth before a fall.
Russia was feared for her possession of the second most powerful army in the world. Mad Vlad got them ridiculed as the second most powerful army in Ukraine. And then as the second most powerful army in Russia. Until Ukraine invaded, and demoted them to third.
Mad Vlad has made a laughingstock of your country. But instead of growing a pair, and throwing the miserable fucker out of a window, you let him squander your own personal reputation by parroting his very obvious lies.
Now I understand that it's possible that that reputation was deliberately and only built so as to have some capital to waste on supporting his ambitions. Maybe you are just a paid lackey who has done his best to sway Western opinions, and is not to blame for the impossibility of that task. But seriously, the guy is a lost cause. It's time to get out (if you can), and to start to rebuild your shattered reputation. You will get nothing in reward for your loyalty, now that the world can see just how evil and impotent your master really is.