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niyad

(114,292 posts) Thu Jan 25, 2024, 12:22 AM Jan 2024

Thinking about pootie and his newly-demonstrated concern for ruzzian assets,

makes me wonder how much of this is related to the increasing calls for handing over 300 billion in frozen assets to Ukraine.

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Thinking about pootie and his newly-demonstrated concern for ruzzian assets, (Original Post) niyad Jan 2024 OP

Putin has grand illusions of the Russian Empire before it fell in 1917 and wants it all back Deuxcents Jan 2024 #1

You mean Tsarist Russia under the Romanovs. ProudMNDemocrat Jan 2024 #2

Deuxcents

(16,538 posts)

1. Putin has grand illusions of the Russian Empire before it fell in 1917 and wants it all back

Reply to niyad (Original post)

Thu Jan 25, 2024, 12:43 AM

Jan 2024

Not gonna happen in the 21st century. Or ever. Ukraine is fighting to the death for their country and so will every other former Russian territory as people reject his nightmare scenario.

ProudMNDemocrat

(16,994 posts)

2. You mean Tsarist Russia under the Romanovs.

Reply to Deuxcents (Reply #1)

Thu Jan 25, 2024, 12:48 AM

Jan 2024

Putin wants back what was once the Soviet Union, Cuba included.

NOT gonna happen no matter how much he threatens to unleash hell.

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