• BatrickPateman@lemmy.world
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    First they were the second most powerful army in the world.

    Then they were the second most powerful in Ukraine.

    And now they are the second most powerful in Russia.

    I like they way this is going 🤗.

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                  The United Nations.

                  While everyone wants Russia to stop this war, it’s hyperbolic to suggest everyone wants Russia annexed.

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                    Since at least WWII russia has threatened war with every leader it’s had. It’s only just now being viewed as a terrorist state, but realistically we can trace that mindset back to Stalin. I wouldn’t mind Finland, Japan, Ukraine, maybe a handfull of others carving russia up.

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          Wow, that would be an incredible amount of aggressive expansion! Coalition speed run any%.

          … I should play less EU4 😁.

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      And now they are the second most powerful in Russia.

      I think it’s been that way for longer than people think. Remember when Wagner just rolled through Russia without any resistance? Putin’s might has always been false promises/ blackmail, but it’s obvious now that Russia hasn’t had the means to back itself up for a while now

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        Prigozhin should have waited to betray Russia until Ukraine was in a position like this.

        Seems like he was an idiot, though. IDK what level of delusional hubris one needs to be on to travel to Moscow after an attempt such as that.

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          With how it went down he was mainly an idiot for standing down. Idk how he imagined that ending

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      they made a classic blunder- the one slightly more well known than getting into it with a scillian when death is on the line! Getting into a land war in Asia!