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"De-nazification and De-militarization" were two stated goals. Mr. Putin tried repeatedly to communicate Russia's disfavor re: breaking of the Minsk Accords, expansion of NATO and the murder of ethnic Russians in the Donbass (the Crimean incineration of innocents 2014), the adoration of Stepan Bandera - responsible for the murder of many ethnic Russians, Poles....The regime of Zelensky was particularly difficult to deal with...and when the inexperienced Zelensky voiced a desire for nuclear weaponry, which followed an increased shelling of the Donetsk-Luhansk region...despite Russia's desire to seek a diplomatic solution -- Mr. Putin acted. The Ruble is stronger. Alliance with China and India, as well as open dialogues with other Eastern European nations, offers new, healthy markets for the Russian economy. Ukraine is a failed, corrupt experiment, which has weakened the West irrevocably. The Slavic nation will reunite and hopefully be stronger for it. Mr. Putin acted to save Russia from the Western elite. I believe he and Mother Russia will prevail.

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Ideologies can be produced as needed, can they not? As long as they satisfy the material conditions for which they are needed, as a part of the superstructure. Citizen Putin can have someone run one up for him should any deficiency be noticed.

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