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Re:Russian forces invade Ukraine after Putin orders attack by phlipski on Thursday February 24, 2022 @10:00AM (#30455483)
I think the only thing that makes sense is Putin's unchecked power (inside Russia) has essentially made him not give a damn anymore. He's rich and powerful and reaching end of his life. He might be physically ill - we don't know. And this is his chance to try to rebuild the USSR consequences be damned.
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Re:Russian forces invade Ukraine after Putin orders attack by hajile on Thursday February 24, 2022 @10:08AM (#30455582)
I think this is the case.

We're talking about a guy who thought that Lenin and Stalin were too soft.

His speech a couple days ago was unhinged and offering justification to invade almost all of Eastern Europe.

https://www.c-span.org/video/?518097-2/russian-president-put...

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Re:Russian forces invade Ukraine after Putin orders attack by ironcurtain on Thursday February 24, 2022 @10:32AM (#30455832)
Did you actually listen to the speech? There was none of it. He stated that Soviet National republics were created by taking historical Russian territory and giving them to newly formed states. All true.
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Re:Russian forces invade Ukraine after Putin orders attack by mint2 on Thursday February 24, 2022 @10:50AM (#30456071)
Who gets to rebuild their empire next? Austrian-Hungarian empire? Ottoman Empire? British empire? Etc etc
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Re:Russian forces invade Ukraine after Putin orders attack by Mirioron on Thursday February 24, 2022 @11:50AM (#30456986)
You mean "historical Russian territory" that the Russian Empire took with conquest? Maybe France should retake historical French territory from the Napoleonic era too?
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Re:Russian forces invade Ukraine after Putin orders attack by notreallyserio on Thursday February 24, 2022 @10:24AM (#30455719)
His power outside Russia seems largely unchecked as well. He still has Crimea and he's probably only a few years away from having another powerful political ally in the US White House (which I'd argue is worse than having an ineffective opponent).
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Re:Russian forces invade Ukraine after Putin orders attack by Intermernet on Thursday February 24, 2022 @10:56AM (#30456148)
What historical period does he want to rebuild Russia to?
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Re:Russian forces invade Ukraine after Putin orders attack by shkkmo on Thursday February 24, 2022 @10:49AM (#30456045)
Ukrainian is not a part of Russia and has not been a part of Russia for 150 years, which is good bit longer than the 100 years ago that it was part of Russia
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