• Honytawk@lemmy.zip
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    1 year ago

    Bitch please, Russia and EU have a much longer history.

    The real “first domino” is somewhere during the Roman empire or even before.

    But the invasion domino is a much bigger threat than the dominoes before.

    Putin could just have decided NOT to invade. He had that power. Yet he pushed the domino anyway.

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      1 year ago

      Putin could just have decided NOT to invade. He had that power. Yet he pushed the domino anyway.

      Putin could have tried to clean up shop in Russia around 2000-2008, he had that power back then. By instead trying to become a new Tsar, he set up himself to either invade over and over, or get killed.

      It’s no coincidence the same year 2012 he got “reelected”, is when the EU started to sweet talk Ukraine; by then, the large dominoes were all set up, just needed that tiny first push.

      By 2014, and 2022, any negative to invade would have him windowed.