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Tedder130's avatar

My contention is that rather than seeing an 'autocratic' Russia with demonic, revanchist Putin in search of restoring the Soviet Union's Empire, we see that Russia led by Putin as standing up to the bully of the neoliberal, globalist world order that seeks total world domination. In this sense, the Ukrainians fight a proxy war for "rules-based" Empire, while the Russians fight a proxy war for a multipolar world of law.

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Your general thrust is correct, IMO. However (1) Zelensky’s sanity or lack thereof is irrelevant: he is just an actor; he has no real power over the conduct of this war, he’s not actually convincing anybody to do anything and the Ukraine, itself, has no real sovereignty; and (2) the Empire of Lies is not “mistaken”; they are determined to break up Russia into statelets without strategic power or sovereignty. To them, a decisive victory by Russia opens the possibility of geopolitical shifts that could bring their entire world order, built on endless swindles and lies, to an end.

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