I'ma put on my ushanka and say, "The correlation of politico-military and geo-economic forces was more favorable in 1968." A Soviet general staff would have known it was stupid but he had a bunch of guys who thought blowing up Chechnya, seizing Crimea, and bombing Syria were brilliant victories.

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I thought he wouldn't do it because, for many reasons, it was a stupid thing to do. I underestimated Putin's stupidity. He really fucked Russia over just because he was mad about the USSR failing and the collapse of the Russian Empire. Very, very stupid.

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I was sitting in my first class at NIU when the professor brought in a report, handed it to me, and asked me to judge the credibility. Didn’t believe what I was reading, but said it was credible and felt a cold streak go down my spine.

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this would have been harder had every member of the Duma not been doing business through gmail

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Yeah I mean the last minute speech Biden gave basically telling putin we had guys in the room with him sold me that he was gonna do it, but it was such a suicidal idea that it still warranted skepticism

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