• 9point6@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    The rest of the world breathes a sigh of relief.

    We kinda have a lot riding on the US remaining a relatively incorrupt democratic superpower.

    Putin is very obviously angling to start a world war with the US as a useful-idiot ally if trump gets even a day in office again.

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      5 months ago

      Putin doesn’t want a world war, he is more interested in having the west just roll over and letting him retake the former countries of the Soviet Union

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        5 months ago

        Of course, but that pretty much can only result in a world war

        Do you really think he stops once the former Soviet countries are under his control?

        If Trump gets elected, the modern world of relative peace ends and we’re thrown into chaos and suffering with possibly no easy way back to stability.

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          5 months ago

          Oh I agree with you, I just don’t think that a world war is what Putin wants.

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            5 months ago

            Like all fascists, he innately assumes the other side won’t fight back. Like an idiot child daydreaming about a fist fight.