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Russo-Ukranian War: This is About Putin's Inability to Understand How the West Won Over His Beloved Soviet Union

Russo-Ukranian War: This is About Putin's Inability to Understand How the West Won Over His Beloved Soviet Union

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Maps show the territories key to any Ukraine-Russia deal | CNN

The Cold Reality of Victory and Defeat

Let's cut the bullshit right now. I am absolutely sick to death of hearing the pathetic, spineless apologia for Vladimir Putin's bloodthirsty rampage across Ukraine. The narrative that "NATO expansion forced Russia's hand" isn't just wrong—it's a disgusting whitewash of a dictator's naked imperial ambition.

When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, it fucking lost. That's what happens in geopolitics—winners win, losers lose. The West didn't just marginally outperform the USSR; we watched that rotting empire collapse under the weight of its own contradictions, corruption, and catastrophic economic failures. The Cold War victory wasn't ambiguous. It wasn't a draw. It was total.

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Putin had to sit there and watch it. He was a KGB Agent, and he was sworn to the Motherland to defend it at all costs. He was a soviet intelli…

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