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Politics : The Trump Presidency
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To: i-node who wrote (227094)2/25/2022 7:00:52 AM
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Who do you think is going to do anything about it? I sure as hell hope we stay out of it. And I’m extremely concerned this idiot president is going to do something stupid.

Actually, it is Putin who is doing "something stupid". The combination of Ukrainians themselves with the aid of NATO countries along with Russian mothers and protesters are what will defeat him in Ukraine. Putin is an idiot. This war will be his downfall, not his apotheosis. As has been usual in history, hubris leads to a fall.

'I Don't Know Why He's There': Russian Mothers Say Soldiers Tricked Into Going to Ukraine
Russian law prohibits conscripts from being sent to the front unless they choose to sign a contract and become career soldiers. But in Ukraine, 'there are a lot of draftees. None of them signed up'
Liza Rozovsky
Feb. 24, 2022 8:35 PM

Maria, who lives in the Russian city of Tver, is beside herself with worry about her son, a soldier doing his compulsory service in the Russian army. She knows he’s 100 kilometers (62 miles) from Kharkiv, but not whether he’s in Ukraine or in Russia. “I don’t know why my child is where a war is going on,” she says on the phone, in tears.

continues at haaretz.com

There are a lot of Russians and Ukrainians who have come to Israel in the last 20 years or so. They know the situation there better than almost anyone else outside of those countries.
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