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The same today with the war on Ukraine. Spending citize' s lives is a great way to prop up a failed regime.

• zirgs 3y ago
  Yup. If Russian soldiers stop dying then Putin falls out of a window.
  • justrealist 3y ago
    I don't think it's that easy to explain. Putin could declare victory (Ukraine is demilitarized) and withdraw today, and most Russians would believe it (or at least, not care about the truth). The worse but more explicable answer is that it's stubbornness and pride on Putin's part in his national aspirations for Russia, for his external image, not his internal one.
    • zirgs 3y ago
      If he withdraws from Crimea - he's dead. Everybody will see that as a miserable defeat.
      • justrealist 3y ago
        He doesn't have to. It's not seriously in play.