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I'm guessing there was very little actual "thought" involved there.

It didn't take a great deal of thought to see the parallels between what Lincoln did and what Putin is now doing.

A lot of other people see the similarities too, probably because the two events have a lot of similarities.

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The other posters are pointing out that Ukraine has been independent for 30 years. We aren't concerned with breakaway provinces of Russian, but with breakaway provinces of Ukraine.

What Putin is doing has much akin to what the Jefferson Davis and Confederacy was trying to do: he's trying to break off territory that he claims has an affinity with Russia. That is what Braxton Bragg was trying to do when he invaded Kentucky in the belief that the state belonged in the Confederacy because it had slavery.