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1. Neverm+(OP)[view] [source] 2023-02-19 06:32:23
In the books, the very distasteful view of Russians is aimed at particular people and organizations within Russia.

Not the general repressed public.

That is worth remembering in the heat of war.

Also, the books recognize that the motives of those powerful government (and government sponsored) organizations are implacable.

They continuously worked in every way possible to undermine the power of other countries, vassal or competitive.

(With the purely pragmatic partial exception of other likeminded or strategically helpful countries.)

Putin seems to have retained those motives, and we ignored that.

Regardless of how the war continues or ends, as long as Putin is in charge, or someone like him, there will be a very active (on their side) clandestine Cold War against everyone external.

And repression of everyone internally.

They really are Bond-worthy villains.

We should not forget that again.

EDIT: Until something fundamentally changes in the leaderships very competitive view of the world.

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2. mdp202+0m[view] [source] 2023-02-19 10:56:51
>>Neverm+(OP)
Yes in general, but it is more complex than that.

There exists a "tzarism" component, there exist others. And an umbrella is theoretically possible where those components are solved - but I have not seen such umbrella developed.

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3. Neverm+Ax[view] [source] [discussion] 2023-02-19 12:48:13
>>mdp202+0m
I am not sure what you mean by “umbrella”.
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4. mdp202+2z[view] [source] [discussion] 2023-02-19 13:02:25
>>Neverm+Ax
> I am not sure what you mean by “umbrella”

A descriptive framework in which the reasonable instances of all parts are explicit and organic.

It is missing (and missed) - and in fact, no diplomatic resolution has been possible.

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