waif in his underwear

A literal translation of мальчик в трусиках, a Russian idiom meaning a helpless person. A reverse shibboleth used by one of Seymour Hersh's unnamed 'sources' to let the world know that Hersh was catfished / false-flagged by a Russian disinformation agent.

"Zelensky has no plan, except to hang on. It’s as if he’s an orphan - a poor waif in his underwear - and we have no real idea of what Zelensky and his crowd are thinking."

— TASS

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