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I do agree that in retrospect, the war doesn't make much sense for Russia. As the article speculates, Putin must have thought that Ukraine was weak enough to be conquered in a matter of weeks, and that the west wouldn't intervene, since it also didn't intervene in the case of Crimea and Donbas.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Paper tiger, read about the West arms production currently and you'll see every sober military analyst tells you they are in rags.