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Speevr's avatar

Excellent piece Lawrence! Great analogy between Stalin not heeding warnings about an imminent German attack and Putin today. Although, if reports are accurate, there was another planned attack foiled by ISIS several days before Crocus City Hall.

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Mark Segal's avatar

Excellent analysis and insight, but is this only about Putin? Suppose he passed away tomorrow? Would much change? I wonder whether the factors that led to the invasion of Ukraine were more systemic and objective factors, which also cohered with Putin's personal "vision" of what "had to be done" there. Is there not some risk in personalizing the etiology of political events that we may be missing something important?

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