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Putins No Chess Master
January 27, 2022 at 12:00 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 0 Comments
https://politicalwire.com/2022/01/27/putins-no-chess-master/
"SNIP......
Eliot Cohen: Ukraine is a problem for Putins Russia not because it may join NATO, but because it is democratizingslowly, awkwardly, imperfectlyand after 30 years of independence is constructing a new national identity. So, too, have the other former Soviet republics, a number of which (Azerbaijan, for example) have quietly sided with Kyiv.
The aim of reconstructing if not the Russian empire, then a 21st-century version of it, is slipping out of Putins grip, and he knows it. In many ways, what were seeing now from Moscow is a spasm of atavistic postimperial assertion, which, rather like British and French intervention in Egypt in 1956, may begin well but will probably end poorly.
The Russian dictator has made demands that he knows cannot be met. He has issued them publicly when such things are usually done in private, meaning that he is looking for a fight on any terms.
......SNIP"
applegrove
(118,622 posts)UTUSN
(70,683 posts)Drumpf did his damnedest to tear apart.
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,988 posts)Drumpf did his damnedest to tear apart.
Johnny2X2X
(19,038 posts)Trump got impeached over asking Ukraine's president to interfere with our Democracy, Trump wants that guy's head on a pike. Putin is all too happy to try to deliver it.
Baked Potato
(7,733 posts)The Strongman image is backing him into a corner. Like authoritarian Dump, he downplayed Covid and shirked responsibility of helping his own country get well.
maxsolomon
(33,310 posts)He may well take Ukraine's Russian-ethnic east up to the Dneiper. This isn't over.
C_U_L8R
(44,998 posts)Putin's hamfisted moves are driving them backwards as international pariahs. The sooner they ditch Poot, the better for their well-being.
maxsolomon
(33,310 posts)He stays in control of Russia until his dying breath. He isn't even 70 yet, so... 2035? 2040?
Celerity
(43,316 posts)taking anything he says with a large grain of salt.
applegrove
(118,622 posts)Xoan
(25,319 posts)marie999
(3,334 posts)He does not want NATO to have a 3,122-mile border with Russia and Belarus.