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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know that Putin is looking at everybody putting the Ukrainian flag on their Facebook profile and is quaking in his shoes.[/quote]

Not really.  But babushkas on the metro with no war stitched on their handbags, oligarchs at threat of losing billions, battalions surrendering and thousands on the streets protesting in Russia do.  Why is he begging for negotiations just two days into his glorious invasion?[/quote]

Good question.. Also he stopped the invasion in 2014 after negotiations called Minsk accord.  Some agreements were reached, why are these agreements no longer viable? What is really prompting him to invade this time when he could have just continued back in 2014 when inconvenient to him government took over? And if he is ready for negotiations now, that's great, let's end this, what's the hold up?[/quote]

The hold up is dear old midget Putin.  He can't find the shoes that make him look taller.

I don't know what prompted him to order this disastrous invasion.  Radiation poisoning, syphilis, small penis, ego?  It's clearly not about Russia's security, people or lol denazification.  What does your commissar tell you today?
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Is there any indication that he won't get exactly what he wants? The Ukrainian 'victories' all over twitter and reddit amount to nothing. The Russian tanks are still advancing from the East and North and there is no suggestion that the Ukrainians are capable of actually stopping them. [/quote]

But what does he want?  He's making Russia less safe, destroying the economy, uniting NATO, bringing Finland and Sweden into the alliance, uniting Americans, uniting Ukrainians, uniting Europeans, killing Russians and hurting the oligarchs.

Of course he'll defeat Ukraine eventually.  His military is 10 times the size.  It'd be pretty pathetic is Russia lost this phase.  But this is only phase one.  Enjoy your second Afghanistan and Chechnya.  Enjoy becoming a pariah state.  Enjoy the rice shortage.  Even Eurovision has expelled Russia.  All because of one man that is putting his own ego above everyone else's.  [/quote]

This.  There's an argument to be made that invading Ukraine, while tragic for Ukranians, may make the rest of us safer.   Russia will get bogged down in a guerrilla/insurgent war of occupation for years to come, with increasing unpopularity at home.   Even if Russians don't have formal political power, they've always voted with their feet and backs.   The loss of confidence in the Soviet system, especially after Afgahanastan, was reflected in the younger generation basically "turning off".    Lousy work ethic, alcoholism, sloppy job performance, corruption.   If Putin tries to reinvent the Soviet model, he will also reinvent all the reasons the Soviet model collapsed from inside.[/quote]

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