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Originally Posted by insanecoder
I was surprised when the Ukrainian crisis hit that Russian tanks did not sweep the country in 24hrs.. this also tells me Putin is a good chess player a dangerous one.
Lups, all Putin wants is alil love.. you Finns should give him sum
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Putin wants love, and he knows from where to get it. Fuck, we even took in hitler over Stalin .
... And we see him as worse.
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Originally Posted by Law
Yup. Taking the rest of Ukraine would just result in more useless land and a having to deal with a population that would be hostile to Moscow.
More administration, more trouble, little-to-no gain economically or politically.
The Crimean Peninsula, on the other hand, is the only part of Ukraine that has any useful purpose to Russia in this game of chess.
It was also convenient that ethnic Russians outnumber ethnic Ukrainians in that region.
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Ukraine was moving towards the eu, and the Ukrainians i have met this year tell me (no matter what they are seen, Russian Ukrainians or Ukrainians, or Ukrainian Russians) that they all after the news coverage from your elections, they now understand how they were used.
I would really want to talk about the end game. My republican friends keep telling me this too: This is not about Russia as a country, this is not about the Russian people. This is about a small number of Russians with money.