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by sam_lowry_ 36 days ago
> What Putin gains with expansion

Personal survival. He needed a war to justify the dismantling of the remaining democratic institutions. That the war lasts plays in his personal interests also.

P.S. Don't forget that he is 73 years old.

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Exactly this.

Putin been killing civilians back from 2001. This diagram cleary shows that together with propaganda machine you can drastically shift population opinion https://cdn.statcdn.com/Infographic/images/normal/28383.jpeg.

Simply, they underestimate how much Ukraine is able to resist.