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Winning is different from taking over.. Russia wants to rule over Ukraine, not destroy it. US was all into destroying Afghanistan and Iraq. They had no intenti
by vaidhy 1y ago
Winning is different from taking over.. Russia wants to rule over Ukraine, not destroy it.
US was all into destroying Afghanistan and Iraq. They had no intention of being there long term.
- lostlogin 1y ago> Russia wants to rule over Ukraine, not destroy it. Can’t it be both? It’s hard to argue they aren’t trying to destroy it. It has been attempted in the past during the Holodomor. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor
- vkou 1y agoThe context of post-civil war stalinism and food/industrial policy was a little different from modern Russian empire-building. Russia's end goal here is a cultural genocide.
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- duxup 1y agoI'll nitpick here and say that Russia's plan was more likely to topple the government and put a puppet in place and then leave, but they botched that.
- watwut 1y agoRussia destroys its colonies. It wants to destroy ukraine. And it wants cultural genocide.
- peoplefromibiza 1y ago[dead]