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Re:The downside of encouraging ‘the fight’ on the streets of... by ModernMech on Saturday March 05, 2022 @07:10AM (#30566812)
You are mistaking Putin’s motives. This isn’t just two guys fighting. This is one astronomically narcissistic psychopath looking to destroy his enemy. Your mistake is assuming Putin had a conscience. He will happily kill an unarmed man.

Your other mistake is thinking Ukraine would be a country if Zelensky fled. That would have been the death of Ukraine as a nation and truly would have spelled death to his people and his culture. That’s something worth fighting for, if anything is.

Venice used to be a Republic before they surrendered to Napoleon. Saved some lives but killed Venice even to this day.

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Re:The downside of encouraging ‘the fight’ on the streets of... by yucky on Saturday March 05, 2022 @03:07PM (#30571376)
>That would have been the death of Ukraine as a nation

Didn't this just happen in 2014 when they had and chased out the last regime? Ukraine remained, just under a new anti-Russian regime.

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Re:The downside of encouraging ‘the fight’ on the streets of... by ModernMech on Saturday March 05, 2022 @05:58PM (#30572823)
They chased out the regime not the people. It's clear now that regime change won't work now that there's a resistance. 2014 was like a vaccine; the invasion didn't go far enough and built up an immune response which solidified their identity as a nation.
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