Stop the proposal on mass surveillance of the EU

Re:Stop the proposal on mass surveillance of the EU by danenania on Thursday February 02, 2023 @11:58PM (#34637316)

Yes, that is true, though similar erosions of democracy also happen in well-established democracies like the US and UK when there are wars. I think there is clearly still an aspiration towards western-style liberal democracy even if there are many gaps in how it's implemented.

I think this aspiration is the fundamental problem for Putin. He sees it as encouraging things like the ousting of Yanukovych, which he desperately wants to stop from being repeated in other countries within his sphere of influence. He already almost lost Belarus in a similar way.

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Re:Stop the proposal on mass surveillance of the EU by int_19h on Friday February 03, 2023 @02:12AM (#34638100)

I'm pretty sure that Putin literally believes all that tripe about "triune people", and I don't think he needed any excuses beyond that. Well, there's also the part where I think he really wants to end up in the history textbooks with the same standing as Ivan III and other famous "gatherers of the land".

So, in a sense, he is also fighting for his country and its nation - it just happens to be an imaginary one: "Greater Russia".

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