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Good job, Putin.

Couldn’t have done it without you proving to every reasonable person that you want the Russian Empire’s borders back.

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It’s kind of crazy that pretty much every assumption Putin had about invading Ukraine turned out to be wrong.

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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.

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That’s very well put

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3 points

Tom Clancy though?

Man doesn’t miss.

(Not counting all the misses)

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3 points

That’s pretty great actually

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Putin’s special military operation to expand NATO is going well.

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Grippens for Ukraine. You promised…

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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

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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.

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this will take some time. Also, I thought Hungary had to approve in Parliament as well, no?

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Yeah, that is the last I heard too. Hungary is still open. Maybe just a matter of time but they keep stalling.

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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)

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