• 9point6@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    The rest of the world breathes a sigh of relief.

    We kinda have a lot riding on the US remaining a relatively incorrupt democratic superpower.

    Putin is very obviously angling to start a world war with the US as a useful-idiot ally if trump gets even a day in office again.

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      4 months ago

      Putin doesn’t want a world war, he is more interested in having the west just roll over and letting him retake the former countries of the Soviet Union

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        4 months ago

        Of course, but that pretty much can only result in a world war

        Do you really think he stops once the former Soviet countries are under his control?

        If Trump gets elected, the modern world of relative peace ends and we’re thrown into chaos and suffering with possibly no easy way back to stability.

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          4 months ago

          Oh I agree with you, I just don’t think that a world war is what Putin wants.

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            4 months ago

            That’s like saying your boyfriend doesn’t want to hit you, you’ve just not done exactly as he said, so he had to hit you.

            I’m sure Putin would be happy if the whole world made him the supreme leader, without a single conflict. But that’s not really the way the world works, his actions can have no other outcome than a world war. It’s up to the rest of us to prevent this in whatever way possible.

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              4 months ago

              Correct, Putin is behaving like an abusive partner.

              He never expected Ukraine and the west to do so well against him, and since we don’t have any police to call in this case the abuser won’t be taken to jail and keeps fighting.