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