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I'm addressing the extraordinary claim that "Trump is a Russian agent" and that now we are suddenly now being soft on Russia. If so, why didn't Putin mount a f

by gedy 2y ago

I'm addressing the extraordinary claim that "Trump is a Russian agent" and that now we are suddenly now being soft on Russia. If so, why didn't Putin mount a full invasion in 2016-2020? Why wait until 2022 when the supposedly tough Biden administration (which included veterans from the 2011 Crimea invasion)? It feels like gaslighting that, at minimum, we've been nothing but soft and ineffectual on Russia the entire time.

credit_guy 2y ago
> If so, why didn't Putin mount a full invasion in 2016-2020? One possible explanation is that Russia is a petro-state. The average oil price between 2010 and 2014 was about $130/barrel. Then in a few short months it dropped by 50% and stayed there until this day (with a short exception around the start of the invasion when it was above $100 for about half a year). [1]https://www.macrotrends.net/1369/crude-oil-price-history-chart https://www.macrotrends.net/1369/crude-oil-price-history-cha...