with putin, i don't trust him at all anymore to have rational plans. there were very very many off-ramps. at this point we can only assume his circle-jerking, cock-sucking fantasy stories about ru as great power and againt us hegemony is what the fuck actual believes....... 'cause otherwise, he wouldn't march his country ahead into doom. you only do that either if you are severely incompetent along the gov. hierarchy (like, talking actual royal courts type thing, far worse. even in ru they can see the rough outline of shit at the top - so they know it's baaad) or if you're in an ideological, existential war. so he gotta think ru is in such a thing, right? trump... mostly agreed. but i don't think his stance is principled. he seems a massive populist. he might swing
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