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Let us not forget: before this war, Russians went on holiday in Odesa. Ukrainians went on holiday in St. Petersburg.

It's not a genocidal war of annihilation. It's not WW2 redux. It's not Holodomor 2.0. I do not think everybody realises how low the stakes of this conflict really are.

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That’s a very cavalier way of looking at things. Tens if not hundreds of thousands of people have died already, and millions of people live now as refugees. What does it take to make something high stakes in your view?

Most of the people who have died in this conflict are Russian soldiers aren't they?

The point being?

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