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		simonh on March 1, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tell HN: If You Are in Russia He may be aware of that now, but I don't think he was at all aware of it a week ago. I think he was expecting an easy takeover just like Crimea.

pydry on March 1, 2022 [–]

That's absurd.

simonh on March 2, 2022 | [–]

We have two examples of Russian tanks rolling into an east European territory and taking it over almost bloodlessly. Czechoslovakia in 1968 and Crimea in 2014. I don't think it's at all absurd to think he was trying for a third.

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