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thanksforallthefish@literature.cafe 23 hours agoMmm, I’d agree that there’s a larger cultural issue with Russia, but Putain turning up his toes will make a difference, because then they have an excuse to quit a war that isn’t going well for them. Sure, give it a couple of years and who ever replaces the vampire will pull something similar, but in the mean time we get a respite and an opportunity for Europe to swivel away from US dependency and towards self sufficiency.
ohulancutash@feddit.uk 23 hours ago
The next man will not want to show weakness by capitulating.
thanksforallthefish@literature.cafe 22 hours ago
Yes, that’s one spin. Another is the new tyrant make seek to blame everything that is wrong with Russia on Putin - there’s plenty of historical support for that being a likely tactic (across many dictatorship changeovers).
In that event the war becomes another piece of evidence about Putin’s incompetence and how the great new leader is fixing everything by exiting it.
There’s a few ways this can go, but realistically given the massive impact it is having on the Russian economy and hence the next tyrant’s ability to siphon off assets I’m betting it goes towards stopping the war than doubling down on it
ohulancutash@feddit.uk 22 hours ago
Russia has a particular centuries-long mindset where it is assumed the world is out to destroy Russia, and it may do so, but Russia is going to take as much of the world down with it as possible. It would be more acceptable then for a new leader to double down in Ukraine than to show weakness by suing for peace. One of the keys to Putin’s early popularity was his immediate and aggressive warfare against breakaway republics. A successor will face the same options.
zedcell@lemmygrad.ml 2 hours ago
The US is the only nation to use nuclear arms. And it used them twice.
Tell me again how Russia is uniquely evil and paranoid and always has been? You absolute racist freaks are always looking for your pathetic race-based excuses for why various nations do things instead of actually reading a god damned book that wasn’t authored by Hitler and the Nazi-lites.