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Almost everyone underestimating Putin. Probably there’s more than meets the eye. For sure a lot of wishful thinking in western views. Putin never lost a war. N
by dbs 5y ago
Almost everyone underestimating Putin.
Probably there’s more than meets the eye. For sure a lot of wishful thinking in western views.
Putin never lost a war.
Not defending him, just noting that the “good guys” don’t always win.
- jackTheMan 5y agoOr this Putin is not the same Putin he was 8 years ago..
- AlexandrB 5y agoOr we've been overestimating Putin for the past decade and his "crafty tough guy" persona was just successful marketing. My personal opinion on this changed when I saw pictures of him sitting at the end of that long table[1] when talking to his advisors/generals. The fact that he's that scared of COVID shatters the tough guy persona. The fact that he was seemingly ok with these pictures going public shows that he has no sense of how silly and bad this looks. [1] https://nz.news.yahoo.com/photos-putin-keeps-his-distance-during-meetings-194633383.html https://nz.news.yahoo.com/photos-putin-keeps-his-distance-du...
- genocidicbunny 5y agoPutin's never really fought a war though, so he would be hard pressed to have won any. The conflicts Russia has engaged in during his reign have been small affairs where there was basically never any real military resistance against Russia. Each of those conflicts was fait accompli as soon as it started. Ukraine is a different beast. Its a country with a regular army that has spent the last 8 years undergoing a rapid modernization process for said army. They have 44 million people, and lots of western support.