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I think people paper over the dark side of human nature. Sometimes people do bad things not out of ignorance, but out of a desire to do bad things. It seemed pr
by prewett 5y ago
I think people paper over the dark side of human nature. Sometimes people do bad things not out of ignorance, but out of a desire to do bad things. It seemed pretty obvious to me that Putin was going to invade: you don't mass 200,000 troops on the border and start making justifying noises if you aren't planning on invading. Putin followed the pre-invasion script of pretty much every invasion in the past couple of hundred years that I'm aware of.
- ip26 5y agoI doubt many desire to do bad things, but rather desire the spoils of bad things & find ways to self-justify.
- jopsen 5y agoHe did mass troops before without invading.. But the US intelligence played it, yes, it's not surprising. Honestly, I thought it could have gone either way. This will have more consequences than anything before, I don't see how we normalize relations with Putin anytime the next 20 years.