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This whole action makes no sense to me. I do not understand Putin's motivation here. I can't see an economic or political justification. The only reason I can
by Osiris 5y ago
This whole action makes no sense to me. I do not understand Putin's motivation here. I can't see an economic or political justification.
The only reason I can think of is that he just yearns for more power regardless of the costs.
Can anyone provide any possible reasons Putin would have for doing this?
- unityByFreedom 5y agoI don't think it benefits him either, but maybe he doesn't see that yet. If he starts feeling the losses he could still get out of it by cancelling the military campaign and pursuing diplomacy.
- throwaway829 5y agoUkraine joining Nato is akin to the Cuban missile crisis. Nato is WW3 in the making. It's an idiotic pact that agrees if Russia does anything deemed hostile, they all have to declare war. It's the same stupid type of pact that caused ww1 & ww2. The people pushing it want war with Russia. It will only benefit fat cat oligarchs. You will pay the taxes and you will be doing the dying.
- xyzzy_plugh 5y agoEven if that were true, it doesn't justify annexing a country and erasing a nation.
- freeflight 5y ago> erasing a nation It's interesting how this kind of language now suddenly starts emerging, wonder how long until everybody will be talking about "genocide".
- xyzzy_plugh 5y agoI'm more than happy to be proven wrong. But the erasure of Ukraine is not novel.
- saagarjha 5y agoWhen people start dying?
- 0x008 5y agoIf history is anything to go by, it is not entirely unlikely that this will end in some form of genocide on the Ukrainian people.
- xyzzy_plugh 5y agoThe wheels for this have been in motion for decades. If the US tries to intervene, the right will skewer Biden. Can you imagine the headlines if Biden went to war over Ukraine??? There's never been a better time for Russia to annex it's neighbor, at least since the fall of the Soviet Union.
- 8note 5y agoCaspian Report has had plenty of interesting opinions on why Russia would want to retake the Ukraine: https://youtube.com/c/CaspianReport https://youtube.com/c/CaspianReport Eg. - Crimea is running out of water - it's a strategic location for protecting the Russian heartland - control of ports
- ironcurtain 5y ago
- vkou 5y agoIt's historically accurate, but also entirely irrelevant. All that history is just an excuse. The reason the Russian government is prosecuting this war is because it is afraid of encirclement. Ukraine's politics shifted westward, which is what prompted it to act. The changes in language laws, the history, and all the other baggage is just an incredibly convenient excuse that justifies the action. None of it, as an end itself, is enough for most right-thinking people to start a war over.