• Wrench@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Also like to add that Ukraine was on a good trajectory and had zero reason to give up its independence. Strong tech industry, agriculture, etc.

    The only way Russia was going to get it back was violently.

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      10 months ago

      And that in itself was another reason to invade. A free and prosperous western-facing Ukraine might cause the Russian masses to begin wondering why they can’t have that too. Putin cannot abide that.