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So, uh, are we gonna have a nuclear war?
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Chapo did an excellent interview with Norman Finkelstein a while ago where Norm points out the Early Life section of Putin's Wikipedia page:
He infers from this that Putin seems to have grown up in the shadow of the ravages of the Nazi invasion of the USSR, which notoriously went how it went in part because Stalin underestimated how quickly the Nazis would attack. He took a passive approach despite the Nazis being on his doorstep and something like 20 million Soviet civilians died for it.
This isn't to lay very much blame on Stalin, I don't know enough about the situation to do so, but it does lend itself to the lesson that when scratched liberals are right there, existentially threatening you, you don't just wait for them to pull the trigger.
Norm put it much better than I could have. I believe it's buried somewhere in this episode: https://soundcloud.com/chapo-trap-house/718-the-view-feat-norman-finkelstein-32823 which is mostly about other things.
Makes sense.