Yup, and I'd say the entire reason it's been resorting to the military was because of its almost non-existent soft power.
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This has to be an all-time fuckup. There’s no way it turns out well for Putin
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Russia is about to have a lot more "soft power" than they bargained for:https://twitter.com/root_nomad/status/1497254180108570633 …
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He did and still does with other true autocrats like Xi and Assad. His version of Russia is just never going to be compatible with democratic or Western ideals and Europe and the US were too slow to realize that
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When countries like India, Pakistan and the UAE give up the pretense of neutrality or outright support for Russia position we will know the gig is up.
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But we made them an oil super power by hamstringing our own oil independence.
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He had hard power. He moved his military across Belarus and assembled forces on their border with Ukraine.
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