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Originally Posted by flylock shox
Yes, exactly. I think the difference being Hitler's annexation of the Sudentenlands was never his end game, whereas I think that attempting to annex former Soviet regions with primarily Russian populations is as far as Putin is likely to go.
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I don't think that's how the world works. When somebody gets something with power, he generally does not consider what he wants. He mostly cares about what he can get.
Putin himself has already referred to "
Novorossiya militia" instead of Eastern Ukraine. He has already sent Russian troops across the border. There is already open warfare, just not very large scale.
It's pretty clear Russian population has nothing to do with this. As long as he will continue to get away with it, he'll keep at it.
Living in a former Russian region, I see little reason to not take Putin deadly seriously. He is a relatively young, fit and patient man, who could live for a very long time and will slowly but surely keep adding countries and land under his rule as much as he can. The only upside for me personally is that Finland probably pretty low on his list of potential targets.