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What does the whole thing mean? Are we into some new geopolitical situation where we play chicken with Russia and hope the don't mess with something we care abo
by version_five 4y ago
What does the whole thing mean? Are we into some new geopolitical situation where we play chicken with Russia and hope the don't mess with something we care about (enough to do more than put a flag in our windows or social media profiles)? Or will Putin die or get overthrown and we go back to normal? Or some other thing? I think it's less a question of if Ukraine wins or loses in whatever this is, and more of how are we going to re-equilibrate? To something stable, or to some fragile ongoing steady-state? There must have been some informed thinking done on this
- Vladimof 4y ago> Or will Putin die or get overthrown and we go back to normal That's a big if... he might have someone lined up
- version_five 4y agoYes good point, there is also the option that his successor maintains this program and nothing change or somehow it gets more dangerous
- quantified 4y agoThere ought not to be "normal" like we were pretending it to be since Putin came to power. Unlikely to see another Gorbachev. Either someone he picked or someone who wants to be him are likely the next century's leaders. The West will simply not be able to trust them.
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- smt88 4y ago> Are we into some new geopolitical situation where we play chicken with Russia and hope the don't mess with something we care about This has been the geopolitical situation between the US and Russia since 1919. The geopolitics of the 20th century were dominated by this exact pattern.