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Putin wanted the Czechoslovakia outcome but couldn't get it
Putin hoped to take Ukraine and then return to the West to be dealt with on that new basis, exactly as Brezhnev did after 1968, but unlike Brezhnev he could not consolidate control because the Ukrainians resisted, so he remains stuck in Donbas and shunned by the West.
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Speaker
Sergey RadchenkoEvidence Quote
“he would have liked to basically taken ukraine and then going back to the west... he couldn't do that and he's still stuck in donbass”
Created: 7/7/2026, 10:51:57 PM
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