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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.

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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.

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.

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