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Re:Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting by johnnyanmac on Saturday March 01, 2025 @08:43AM (#43219144)
The context is that Russia kept expanding for 13 years under the same dictator, and then this time is the straw that broke the camel's back. The trust was broken several times.

I don't really care to understand the mindset of a dictator. They want power, resources,or reputation out of it. There's not a lot of justified reasons to lead an assault that will cost millions of your citizen's lives.

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Re:Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting by gitaarik on Saturday March 01, 2025 @10:01AM (#43219875)
I agree we shouldn't take the mindset of a dictator seriously, but we should take the threat of a superpower seriously. And we should show respect to a superpower as long as it's a superpower, because getting into conflict with a superpower can cause WW3.

I don't mean with that that I fully agree with their standpoint, but that we shouldn't fuck too much with them, because they might fuck with us.

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