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by koonsolo 1158 days ago
> On the contrary this war is Putin's multiyear bet on Russia's useful idiots in the West.

It's not even that complicated. His bet was that the West would respond the same as we did with Georgia, Chechenya, and the Donbas/Crimean invasion of 2014.

It was 'safe' to assume that the West would react the same with a complete invasion of Ukraine. Seems like not.

If Putin was smart, he would have gracefully pulled out of this. But seems like he much rather want to turn his country into a new North Korea.