• Cassa
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    23 hours ago

    3 day special military operation… Two invasions? Yea Chechnya wants a word

    Any time the “anti-terror” police does work? The russian demographies maybe? Or the fact that outside of the oil russian real growth has been sinking?

    Putin is a dick-tator. He thought the EU would back down on Ukraine, he “read his cards” incorrectly.

    He’s having to beg china for help since the russian industry would collapse without their assistance.

    The really important point here is that idiots are very capable of doing extreme harm. And we need to take it seriously even if they are stupid, just don’t portray them as something they are not.

    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.zip
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      I don’t disagree with you, but let me put it this way:

      When I say ‘Putin can correctly read most of the cards in his hand?’

      ‘Most’ just means ‘more than half’.

      But yeah, stupid people with great power are very, very dangerous.

      Kind of… the whole point of a democratic government is to be able to have internal abilities to check and block the stupidity of any one person, and make power be more diffuse…

      But when that breaks down or is subverted, you go back to very powerful, often very stupid people in charge.