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To be America's enemy is dangerous, but to be its ally is fatal (lemmy.ml)
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[-] SleafordMod@feddit.uk -1 points 3 months ago

I don't think it's just Putin which is why I mentioned the megalomania of other Russian elites. But Putin surely made the final decision to invade.

[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 months ago

Believing history to be driven by the egos of a few individuals and divorcing it entirely from materialist analysis is Great Man Theory, though. Ego may have played a small factor, but certainly not the driving force.

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