• uis@lemm.ee
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      27 days ago

      His boss wants to stay in power, Ukraine is just convenient way of doing it.

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        27 days ago

        Ukraine was a massive fuck up for Putin. He believes in the bullshit known as color revolution.

        So he thought he’d pull one in Ukraine. A few years of some soldiers fucking around in the East, then he’d walk in and be welcomed.

        Which is fucking stupid.

        But Putin has long since killed anyone who would tell him that an idea is stupid, or that people don’t work the way a paranoid, backstabbing KGB trained psychopath thinks they do.

        No, Putin fucked up hard due to the dictator trap.

        Now he’s scrambling. He’s been killing off rivals and opponents at a breakneck pace the last few years, all because his position has never been weaker.

        And he barely managed to diffuse a coup attempt.

        He had to use treachery to do it, so the next time, the coup leader will not back down.

        No, Putin is desperate to pull out some sort of win in Ukraine, because anything else is the end of his rule, and likely his life.