Matthew Yglesias

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Assuming he's not crazy and doesn't want to see a worse war but also doesn't want to just unilaterally surrender in Ukraine, the key issue is that *Putin* needs to find a way to draw credible limits around *his* aspirations. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Oct. 12, 2022 Deleted after a month Hibernated

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

He could choose to go nuclear to defend Russia's claim to the Donbass. He could choose to go nuclear to defend Russia's claim to Crimea. He could choose to go nuclear to contest Finnish accession to NATO. He could do it just because he's bored and wants to see what would happen. — PolitiTweet.org

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What's set us on this dangerous escalatory course isn't anything that the United States or France or Germany has done, it's that Putin's behavior has — very reasonably! — scared everyone into thinking that battlefield defeat is the only check on his ambition. — PolitiTweet.org

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