re: Putin’s Invasion Had the Opposite Intended Effect - Russia Now Surrounded by NATO

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Russia will remain a functioning intact country long after the USA has been destroyed from within.

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What Russia? The one that emerged in 1990? The 34 year old one? Russia is a dictatorship. Sure, there will be a dictator in Russia 50 years from now. But what does that mean about the continuation of the country? The land will still be there, but the dictator will be a different one, and his values will be whatever keeps him in power.

In the mean time, the values of the USA are the rights of the individual. These are weakening somewhat - although the left would argue that alphabet people gaining civil rights is strengthening individual rights - as government gets larger.

So while the USA is a country dedicated to principles, Russia is a country dedicated to keeping power. Saying that there will be a thug running Russia when the USA finally declines to the point of having our own thug dictator hardly compliments Russia.