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> What Putin gains with expansion Personal survival. He needed a war to justify the dismantling of the remaining democratic institutions. That the war lasts pl
by sam_lowry_ 5mo ago
> What Putin gains with expansion
Personal survival. He needed a war to justify the dismantling of the remaining democratic institutions. That the war lasts plays in his personal interests also.
P.S. Don't forget that he is 73 years old.
- thewinnie 5mo agoExactly this. Putin been killing civilians back from 2001. This diagram cleary shows that together with propaganda machine you can drastically shift population opinion https://cdn.statcdn.com/Infographic/images/normal/28383.jpeg https://cdn.statcdn.com/Infographic/images/normal/28383.jpeg. Simply, they underestimate how much Ukraine is able to resist.