Putin Invades the Ukraine

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Originally Posted by Dondilion

He is smart as to governance, but as to geopolitics?... This needs more than
being smart. Vlad is up against very powerful forces that are coalescing. Forces that fervently believe Russia is inherently inferior and so they become rigid and implacable. Now the danger to the world is if the two sides play "Brinkmanship".

Russia is 'behind' the West. Especially when it comes to western liberal democracy, which in Europe spread from west to east. We in the West are for it because it works a bit better than what came before.

Russia being a good example. Russia and its vassal states are the last "hold-outs."