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girkkens t1_j9j2cd3 wrote

He didn't really think this war through. Once the EU is running on mostly renewable energy (may take a few years), Russia will basically lose the last reason anybody even considered them as a player on global scale. Even before the war Russia was laughable from an economic view. Without anybody wanting their natural resources they will be insignificant. Well done Putin.

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Harbinger2001 t1_j9keyeq wrote

Putin was facing a west-friendly Ukraine controlling their southern pipeline and bringing their own LNG production online. The longer he waited the worse it would get for Russia. Trump being the first incumbent to lose in a long time really hurt his plans. In the end he decided the damage done to western solidarity was more permanent than it turned out to be.

The lesson is - don’t fuck with the US’s geopolitical and economic interests.

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