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Re:Missing wheat from the war is less than 1% of global whea... by JoeAltmaier on Thursday March 31, 2022 @11:43AM (#30868471)
Gee and here I thought it was Putin who was dropping bombs. It's inconceivable he could just stop doing that? And go back to doing business peaceably?

It's not "Win or Die" for Russia. Anything but. It's one man's ego, and even Russians recognize that.

To assume only the US has any agency and only US actions make a difference, inevitably results in "The US is at fault for everything"

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Re:Missing wheat from the war is less than 1% of global whea... by ElectricalUnion on Thursday March 31, 2022 @12:32PM (#30869164)
> It's not "Win or Die" for Russia.

It took the US more that 8 years to retreat from Iraq, and you're asking a poor country to do such thing immediatly?

The genie is out of the bottle, I don't think the west will suddenly drop all sanctions, pretend nothing happened, and resume business even if such never-seen-in-history retreat happens.

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Re:Missing wheat from the war is less than 1% of global whea... by ncmncm on Thursday March 31, 2022 @08:43PM (#30873971)
The sooner they leave the less it costs.
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Re:Missing wheat from the war is less than 1% of global whea... by ElectricalUnion on Sunday April 03, 2022 @01:12AM (#30894646)
That only reduces the cost from the point of view of Ukraine or the West, not from the point of view of the one being sanctioned.
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Re:Missing wheat from the war is less than 1% of global whea... by Ancapistani on Thursday March 31, 2022 @12:29PM (#30869121)
> It's not "Win or Die" for Russia.

Perhaps it's not "win or die" for Russia, but it is for Putin.

If you asked the average Russian on the street, they would probably agree that those are separate entities. If you asked Putin, I suspect you'd get a different answer.

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