Comments by "L.W. Paradis" (@l.w.paradis2108) on "Putin May Upgrade SMO to Counter Terror Operation; Modi Says India Russia Friendship Unbreakable" video.

  1. Had Russia concluded the SMO by April then these lives would not have been lost. Putin didn't plan for this?
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  2. This is all entirely true. It is also true that Putin has in large part made grave mistakes. His management of the economy is his only clear success, no small matter. But to expand this war well beyond what it was 2014 to February 2022 and changing its character -- which was already wrong as long as there were other options available -- then failing to bring it to a rapid close, and all this on the heels of a pandemic, in the poorest country in Europe, was and is terrible. I tend to have some sympathy for Putin for the simple reason that the West is led by far worse. Faint praise, though. A tragedy all the way around. A terrible failure so far. War is a last resort. A war of attrition is unconscionable. Destruction of housing stock in any country but especially a poor country is a tragedy, nevermind harming civilians. How easily we accept war!
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  3. Modi is right. Not a fan, but when he's right, he's right. This is unconscionable.
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