• Skyrmir@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    If we put a bullet in Putin, there would be no more war. That tells me we’re not at war with Russia. We’re at war with Putin.

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      1 day ago

      Did killing Cesar at the end of Fallout New Vegas teach us nothing?

      The war machine is too far along to be stopped easily.

      Or if WW1 is your poison:

      Initially, Wilhelm II wanted to halt the German mobilization, hoping for a peaceful resolution. However, Moltke insisted it was too late to stop the complex mobilization process once it had been set in motion. He argued that it was “like a wound-up clock” that couldn’t simply be unwound. His words essentially conveyed that the mobilization machinery, once started, would continue inexorably towards war, effectively removing any possibility of reversal.

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      2 days ago

      There is a “nice” list of even more extremist assholes that would follow after Putin, of the type “if the earth is burning I can still rule it”

      I don’t know if I want Putin gone

      What Russia needs is an international revolution

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        1 day ago

        You’re right there is a list, and they don’t agree who should be in charge. Which means the internal problems would be a lot more important than the external war. Especially if there is a risk one of them might take western help to get in charge.

        By the time they’re ready to think about Ukraine again, there would be half of NATO sitting there waiting for them.

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          2 days ago

          Putin has surrounded himself with those who agree with him, and killed those who disagree who are at all in danger of getting a position of power. Unless you kill nearly everybody in politics nothing will change. (if you do I don’t know what the result will be other than really bad - and no guarantee of change for the better even with just the Ukraine issue)

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            2 days ago

            Well it can’t get a whole lot worse at this point unless they really go with someone with a disorder.