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Is there anyone Putin won't uselessly kill? If you had told me in the 00's that we'd be right back to this Iron Curtain standoff, I simply wouldn't have believe
by mindslight 3y ago
Is there anyone Putin won't uselessly kill? If you had told me in the 00's that we'd be right back to this Iron Curtain standoff, I simply wouldn't have believed you. Apparently progress is much more fragile than my younger self had thought, and it only takes one fallacy-of-yesteryear reactionary dipshit to kick a country backwards a generation and a half. What a waste of human potential.
- The_Colonel 3y agoDipshits like Putin and Hitler still need a fertile ground, in both cases chauvinism/imperialism within the population.
- Arech 3y agoWhen I was a youngster in the nineties, I read Erich Maria Remarque's books and thought: "Wow! I'm so lucky the World has changed, people became smarter, more tolerant to each other, and none of this shit will even happen!"... And now I'm like in some of Remarque's stories :D
- resolutebat 3y agoKilling defectors is quite useful, since it sends a strong message to others planning the same.
- mindslight 3y agoTactically, sure, it has an effect. But it just reeks of strategic impotence, like targeting all those Ukrainian civilians. Can't take a city? Settle for destroying an apartment building instead. It's basically another point to the idea that this whole conflict being about Putin reenacting his trauma of the USSR and its collapse. During the cold war, punishing defectors or spending some soldiers lives in slow burn conflicts wasn't a significant waste of resources and it did shore up the lines of national identity. But what were relatively successful tactics back then have now been scaled up despite being completely inapplicable for the current reality.