Good job, Putin.
Couldn't have done it without you proving to every reasonable person that you want the Russian Empire's borders back.
It's kind of crazy that pretty much every assumption Putin had about invading Ukraine turned out to be wrong.
It's the dictator trap.
See, they live in a distorted reality, because advisors who don't tell them what they want to hear, are often no longer their advisors. Sometimes they simply no longer are.
The second part of the dictator trap is loyalty. Fear does not engender loyalty. Fear leads to greed. So with people actively lying to the dictator, they see it as given that they will skim a little off the top for themselves. For any unexpected retirements that they have.
The dictator knows that his people are crooked, but he also knows that he would not be the dictator without them. So he trusts that he has eyes on everything, but then he cannot actually trust his advisors to tell him the truth, because of part one of the dictator trap.
And this cycle just feeds back into itself endlessly.
That's very well put
Tom Clancy though?
Man doesn't miss.
(Not counting all the misses)
That's pretty great actually
Putin's special military operation to expand NATO is going well.
Grippens for Ukraine. You promised...
Need to get this through the Turkish parliament and also get Hungary to stop fucking about first. Hopefully the Polish elections will result in the EU being able to put more pressure on Hungary
Slovakia is now also ran by a Putin-financed nationalist idiot, so don't hold high expectation. There's again someone to block potential EU sanctions against Hungary.
Sadly, our fking commie orban (the hungarian dictator/king) still postponing the "voting" about this, to serve putin (he has all the document about his and his comrades commie past, and present)
this will take some time. Also, I thought Hungary had to approve in Parliament as well, no?
Yeah, that is the last I heard too. Hungary is still open. Maybe just a matter of time but they keep stalling.
NATO should send Putin some kind of present basket. That russian cunt did more advertising for the NATO than anybody else.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
STOCKHOLM — In one of the most consequential strategic realignments since Russia’s full-scale attack on Ukraine, Sweden appears poised to join Finland inside NATO as soon as next month, linking arms with its neighbors in an increasingly joined-up defense of Europe’s northeast.
Stoltenberg said his talks with Erdoğan this month had been constructive, and on Monday, the Turkish leader said he had signed and passed documents to the parliament in Ankara so it can vote on Sweden’s eventual accession.
Standing alongside Stoltenberg in Stockholm, Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said his country had watched the Finnish accession process closely “to learn lessons for our own integration.” Finland joined NATO in April.
The annexation of Crimea by Russia earlier that year had sent a chill through the Baltic Sea region but the two Nordic states appeared intent on not joining the alliance.
Still, Stoltenberg helped push integration between Finnish, Swedish and NATO forces through detailed agreements such as the Enhanced Opportunity Partnership and Host Nation Support.
But in May 2022, the Social Democrats pivoted and Stoltenberg — and Swedish officials — began months of shuttle diplomacy, regularly taking in Washington and increasingly Ankara as Erdoğan’s resistance emerged.
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Why do I have this feeling that something really bad is going to happen every time I hear 'The time has come'?
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