I remember at the start, there were a bunch of his photo-ops going around of him in fatigues near "the front lines". Which I believe are all photo-ops that predated the war to begin with. People were losing their shit over having "a leader who walks the walk from the front lines".
Is that still something people believe happened or did it just get quietly swept under the rug for the next thing?
It's way funnier than that. There was a photo op in December 2021, the photos of which were re-used after the SMO started, often with the implication that they were recent.
Only if "get back to the war" means "get back to knocking around Europe because Kiev -- excuse me, Kyiv -- is not a safe place for the Z-Man to be right now"