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by kravietz 4215 days ago
Stay cool, there will be no war. It's going to stay a regional conflict fueled by a small group of Russian nationalists, slowly turning Donbas into yet another blackhole like South Ossetia or Abkhazia.
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I really wish and hope that you and all the other people with the same opinion will be proved right.

I am worried that some unpredictable accident or irrational decision will turn this into a new nightmare. After all a huge majority of Russians support Putin and his politics. With more and more isolation and bad economy in Russia, Putin might maybe at some point feel that he has no other way to keep his "honor/dignity" in the eyes of his people and might start a war.

After all we do not know what happens in the heads of powerful men in this position and he might feel by the NATO expansion quite encircled.

Let's hope that people at power, including Putin, do not make any irrevocable things.