Seems like that should be obvious, but I guess not these days.
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Putin has long desired to restore the Soviet Union. Crimea and Ukraine were just the start. His end goal requires eliminating the US as a threat to those plans; with that achieved, he may be counting on Western Europe to let Putin do what he likes in the East.
Putin Has Big Plans to Recreate the Russian Empire | The National Interest
Yet she, a Belarusian, said it anyway in spite of defenestration being the order of the day when faced with troublemakers. Either she had a lapse in judgement, or she considered the risk and bravely spoke out, nonetheless. Whatever the case, I hope she is very well hidden and surrounded by numerous well-armed anti-authoritarian loyalists.
(excerpt) But he is under no illusion about the risk he is himself in by helping other soldiers to flee.
“I understand the more I do that, the higher the chances they could try and kill me.”
(Given that it’s a BBC interview, I assume the deserter is not here in the US. Good. Under the Trump administration the deserter would be in great danger if he was here in the States. Also, Putin’s “criminal order” “shortly after the full-scale war began” to target civilians clearly eliminates the notion of civilian deaths and injuries as being accidental and collateral.)
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She gave the interview in Canada, and the article says she has been living in Lithuania. Still risky, of course.
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I’m very much hoping that’s a feint.
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Russian Empire. I don’t think he is restoring workers’ councils in Russia.
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