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It's not that he only understand force. If he wanted to negotiate he could do it. He had plenty of opportunity to do it, and still has. At this point it really, really feels that Putin do actually want a war. He's doing absolutely everything he can to have a war.

Rational or not doesn't really matter if what he wants is a war (I mean, he already started a war with Ukraine of course).

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He does want to bring Russia back to glory. That's for sure. I think he doesn't want direct conflict with the USA. Like most bullies I think he feel happy about uneven war with small countries like Ukraine. I doubt he wants war with NATO.

It's a persecution complex that's very common in Russia. They're paranoid about western expansion. This has some historical merit to be fair.

After Russia's showing in Ukraine, I think it goes without saying that Moscow would be under American occupation right now if not for nuclear weapons

Unfortunately, Russians aren't so lucky. Tiny South Korea is richer than Russia. Can you imagine how well Russians (with their enormous and rich country) would be doing if they were occupied by Americans and not Putin?

So lucky, they have the highest suicide rate.

Compared to other OECD countries, South Korea's female suicide rate is highest with 15.0 deaths by suicide per 100,000 deaths according to the suicidal rate list, while the male suicide rate is third highest with 32.5 per every 100,000 deaths.

That was my understanding/position until a few days ago. But from what I understand he shifted his strategy from "taking over Ukraine" (so part of his plant to bring back his fascist dream of a lost glory) to "repeat Allepo and Grozny but for Ukraine cities" (aka bomb cities to complete annihilation), which does not go well with the idea that he just wants to bring any glory back to Russia.

The Ukrainians were the ones that halted the Minsk negotiations.

Not like they were negotiating in good faith anyways, as they continued to shell the East.

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