The domino theory re: Putins invasion of Ukraine

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it been stated somewhere that this is his goal?

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Putin has said the exact opposite. Listen to the Tucker interview

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So what is with this "domino" theory of aggression? 

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It's a bullshite theory that is used by self-important and self-interested fart sniffers in the Beltway to justify looting the treasury and sending thousands of middle American "peasants" to die in a third-world shithole.

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So what is with this "domino" theory of aggression?

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Scare tactics meant to convince the naive into "Standing with Ukraine".

Russia isnt overwhelming Ukraine, they would stand no chance vs a Western European country.

While they have more bodies than Ukraine, the cumulative losses would become a major problem should it proceed from there..

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Obama? You clearly are not educated on the conflict

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Holy shite SFP
and you try to act intelligent on here

Bro doesn’t even know about the CIA and the maidan coup

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Bro doesn’t even know about the CIA and the maidan coup

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Ignoring the fact that Maidan was an organic reaction

Obama was specifically hands off with Ukraine, even allowing Russia to illegally seize Crimea. He was not quiet about his belief that he didn't believe in the costs of intervention.

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Ask Georgia and Estonia.

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Most of these people don't even know what you're talking about.

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Ask Georgia and Estonia. Ukraine isn't the first country since 2008 to feel this from Russia.

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Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan will likely be his next targets of interest.

Estonia made a good call of getting into NATO while Russia was down.

Moldavia also a target.

This is why the EU countries are stupid, they would rather spite Trump and push him further away, when all that will do is put more countries like Estonia outside the US Nuclear umbrella.

Ukraine shouldn’t have shelled Russian ethnic areas in the Donbas.

The poor little Ukraine narrative is getting old

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Putin has no chance whatsoever of successfully invading a NATO nation. None. And he and the world know this.

So what is with this "domino" theory of aggression? Has it been stated somewhere that this is his goal?

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Not to take away from the excitable narrative that people love here, but Putin has been extremely clear on this for a long time, most notably in his professional writings in Russian.

He actually touched on it during his long rambling monologue during the Tucker Interview, without addressing it directly. He also touches on it a bit more broadly in his 2021 essay 'On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians' ; likewise there are statements from speeches and appearances and documents dating back essentially to the Chechen crisis that speak more in terms of the restoration of the former Russian Empire, rather than the Soviet era borders explicitly.

Now, this war may have bled him dry of his offensive capability to interfere in other peripheral states-- see what happened in Nagorno Karabagh, where the Armenians were absolutely kicked in the teeth by the Azeris.

However, his willingness to continuously prosecute a disastrous war in the Ukraine, his ongoing meddling in Georgian internal politics, etc all argue that he will continue to pursue these aims, as he had for the decade and a bit before this particular outbreak of violence.