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Bestiola
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21 Feb 2025, 5:09 pm

chris1989 wrote:
The thing is also how come he hasn't also attacked the countries literally on his border already like Finland, Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania etc which are now NATO countries? He surely knows that attacking a NATO country must be suicide. I don't like the man but he is not insane. It reminds me of a line from a documentary I saw about the Roman emperor Caligula if he was bonkers why was made emperor in the first place?


Caligula wasn't insane when he was made emperor. He became mentally ill later, perhaps due to epileptic psychosis (although there were speculations of other illnesses). And there were speculations about whether he was actually mad or those who wrote about him were too biased. Dio Cassius and Suetonius whose writings about him survive from antiquity aren't too famous for being historically accurate.



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21 Feb 2025, 5:21 pm

gwynfryn wrote:
What a shame they didn't accept the referendum results? This was all so predictable, but the Ukraine government wouldn't give up the indutrial wealth of the russian speaking sector. I wonder if anyone has done a cost analysis; cedeing territory which was russian anyway a few decades ago, compared to fighting a largely pointless war over it? Even in the unlikely outcome of Ukraine winning (or geting a stalemate) it's a problem that will not go away.


How unreasonable, can you believe the Ukrainians expected their territorial integrity to be respected? The sheer nerve of them.


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