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Re:The downside of encouraging ‘the fight’ on the streets of... by bergie on Saturday March 05, 2022 @07:18AM (#30566857)
> tomorrow would be exactly the same.

Right now Ukraine is a democracy with free press etc.

Under Russian occupation you'd have dictatorship, death squads, the whole country looted.

Exactly the same, sure.

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Re:The downside of encouraging ‘the fight’ on the streets of... by galfarragem on Saturday March 05, 2022 @07:29AM (#30566938)
Post-soviet Russians are demanding a different political system. I believe Putin will the be the last of his kind there.
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Re:The downside of encouraging ‘the fight’ on the streets of... by dageshi on Saturday March 05, 2022 @07:54AM (#30567124)
They can demand all they want? How will they achieve it? Putin suppresses any opposition political parties who might win over him or whoever will be his chosen successor.
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