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Gee and here I thought it was Putin who was dropping bombs. It's inconceivable he could just stop doing that? And go back to doing business peaceably? It's not
by JoeAltmaier 5y ago
Gee and here I thought it was Putin who was dropping bombs. It's inconceivable he could just stop doing that? And go back to doing business peaceably?
It's not "Win or Die" for Russia. Anything but. It's one man's ego, and even Russians recognize that.
To assume only the US has any agency and only US actions make a difference, inevitably results in "The US is at fault for everything"
- Ancapistani 5y ago> It's not "Win or Die" for Russia. Perhaps it's not "win or die" for Russia, but it is for Putin. If you asked the average Russian on the street, they would probably agree that those are separate entities. If you asked Putin, I suspect you'd get a different answer.
- ElectricalUnion 5y ago> It's not "Win or Die" for Russia. It took the US more that 8 years to retreat from Iraq, and you're asking a poor country to do such thing immediatly? The genie is out of the bottle, I don't think the west will suddenly drop all sanctions, pretend nothing happened, and resume business even if such never-seen-in-history retreat happens.
- ncmncm 5y agoThe sooner they leave the less it costs.
- ElectricalUnion 5y agoThat only reduces the cost from the point of view of Ukraine or the West, not from the point of view of the one being sanctioned.