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I don't really follow you. He hasn't needed a pretext to invade Ukraine for a year now. If he used it a lot in the context of Ukraine it might be harder to recy

I don't really follow you. He hasn't needed a pretext to invade Ukraine for a year now. If he used it a lot in the context of Ukraine it might be harder to recycle in another country. I tend to think that he fell for his own propaganda orders as they came back given his very visible symptoms of long term steroid use and dementia. But it doesn't really matter what he fools himself with and what he knows is a lie.

watwut 4y ago
He did used that argument by the biggening of the war and stopped using it as it because apparent people generally do not believe it. That would be excuse. Putin and Russia recycle same excuses and points across countries all the time. It does not make it harder for them, they work around the same each time. I don't think there is much evidence of dementia or whatever. The rumors about Putin bad health are there constantly for years and none of them ended up confirmed.