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This whole action makes no sense to me. I do not understand Putin's motivation here. I can't see an economic or political justification.

The only reason I can think of is that he just yearns for more power regardless of the costs.

Can anyone provide any possible reasons Putin would have for doing this?

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Caspian Report has had plenty of interesting opinions on why Russia would want to retake the Ukraine: https://youtube.com/c/CaspianReport

Eg.

- Crimea is running out of water - it's a strategic location for protecting the Russian heartland - control of ports

I don't think it benefits him either, but maybe he doesn't see that yet. If he starts feeling the losses he could still get out of it by cancelling the military campaign and pursuing diplomacy.

The wheels for this have been in motion for decades. If the US tries to intervene, the right will skewer Biden. Can you imagine the headlines if Biden went to war over Ukraine???

There's never been a better time for Russia to annex it's neighbor, at least since the fall of the Soviet Union.

Ukraine joining Nato is akin to the Cuban missile crisis. Nato is WW3 in the making. It's an idiotic pact that agrees if Russia does anything deemed hostile, they all have to declare war. It's the same stupid type of pact that caused ww1 & ww2. The people pushing it want war with Russia. It will only benefit fat cat oligarchs. You will pay the taxes and you will be doing the dying.

Even if that were true, it doesn't justify annexing a country and erasing a nation.

> erasing a nation

It's interesting how this kind of language now suddenly starts emerging, wonder how long until everybody will be talking about "genocide".

I'm more than happy to be proven wrong. But the erasure of Ukraine is not novel.

When people start dying?

If history is anything to go by, it is not entirely unlikely that this will end in some form of genocide on the Ukrainian people.

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