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I am obviously biased being from Ukraine but Putin is being active mostly because he perceives EU as being extremely weak and US President as weak so he has a
by qaq 10y ago
I am obviously biased being from Ukraine but Putin is being active mostly because he perceives EU as being extremely weak
and US President as weak so he has a window to act. If he received some serious level of resistance (not military) he would quickly back down, but he only receives very minor resistance which is interpreted as farther sign of west's weakness.
- rangibaby 10y agoDo you live in Ukraine now? What is the general mood in the different parts of the country? If you do live there I would like to read your opinions, there is so much spin and lies in the media (from both sides).
- qaq 10y agoI moved to US a year ago, there is always spin in the media, so if I can help providing some useful information would be glad to do so.
- int_19h 10y agoI'm not sure that is true. It's a popular theory, certainly, but another popular theory is that he genuinely believes in all that Third Rome, Russia as savior of the world pseudo-religious bullshit. With the guy being in charge of the world's largest nuclear arsenal, this is not something that we'll want to test experimentally.
- qaq 10y agoUSSR had a much more potent military and I don't remember US employing a strategy of yielding to that.