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moondust

(19,972 posts)
3. True but...
Sat Mar 12, 2022, 12:17 PM
Mar 2022

then he might not be remembered as "Putin the Great" and have statues erected to him and have a large city renamed Putingrad.

Sorry, that is just too much to sacrifice.

Wingus Dingus

(8,052 posts)
4. But Vlad's mad, now! He must grind Ukraine into dust and punish
Sat Mar 12, 2022, 12:17 PM
Mar 2022

all those people who dared want to have their own country. Otherwise Belarus and other places might start getting ideas, too.

Chainfire

(17,531 posts)
5. Putin can't stop what he has set in motion without losing face.
Sat Mar 12, 2022, 12:17 PM
Mar 2022

He will never accept defeat and just walk away. The Russian people support him when they should be taking his toys away.
It is a hell of a mess with no simple solutions. It is amazing to me that one man can cause so much drama in the world, and that the other billions let him get away with it. And we think that we are an intelligent species...what a joke.

Irish_Dem

(46,929 posts)
7. WWII killed 85 million people. A war started by one man.
Sat Mar 12, 2022, 12:54 PM
Mar 2022

Hitler. Japan jumped on the bandwagon later.

Raine

(30,540 posts)
6. Putin isn't man enough to stop or smart enough
Sat Mar 12, 2022, 12:20 PM
Mar 2022

he'll continue if he has to destroy the whole world.

lindysalsagal

(20,678 posts)
11. And he could declare his mission a success and they'd cheer him for it.
Sat Mar 12, 2022, 01:09 PM
Mar 2022

Since they believe everything he says. This isn't about anything except his pathetic revenge.

Baked Potato

(7,733 posts)
14. This is exactly what I think when economists predict
Sat Mar 12, 2022, 02:23 PM
Mar 2022

a whole world recession. This guy from this one country could just STOP hindering the world economies from recovering from Covid.

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