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[What will Putin do if he realizes he’s losing?]

Improve his game if he thinks he could still win. Or, if he thinks all is lost, he’ll withdraw to focus on wiping out his internal rivals. Hard to fight a war and deal with internal opponents at the same time. Nicholas II suffered a similar defeat, but rallied to take out his enemies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Japanese_War
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1905_Russian_Revolution

It took a couple of million Russian dead from WWI (as of 1917) for the last of the Romanovs to lose his grip on power.

12 posted on 03/25/2022 12:50:22 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)

“It took a couple of million Russian dead from WWI (as of 1917) for the last of the Romanovs to lose his grip on power.”

Yeah, and the Bolsheviks killed not only Nicholas II, but his entire family, as well as the family dogs (Ortipo, who was bayoneted; and Jimmy, who was shot). Sick bastards, the Bolsheviks.

32 posted on 03/25/2022 12:59:16 PM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )

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