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Old 03-02-2022, 09:58 AM   #2405
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Originally Posted by Matata View Post
Putin was watching what he considered his chief rival, the US, use it's influence to push for more and more military on Russia's doorstep for decades (a bit like the cuban missile crisis, but with the US as the instigator). Eventually a guy like Putin was going to respond and he's doing it in the worst way possible because he's surrounded himself by sycophants and he's taking on the most capable military intelligence in human history, who are on track to get everything they want from this conflict: public approval, military influence over Ukraine, Russia humiliated and devastated.
I don't get this idea. The US was instigating this for decades? I mean what did Russian think was going to happen? A massive US collation invasion of Russia? That would NEVER happen. If anything, those buffer countries were/are seeking protection from an OBVIOUS threat in the Russians. Russia has proven and continues to prove that they are bullies at the least or imperialistic in the worst way at the most.

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