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Your implication/suggestion that Ukraine was a ‘target’/simple takeover is stupid.

Well, Putin certainly thought that Ukraine would be a simple and takeover target, so, it looks like you're the one with the simple-minded stupid belief. Putin is smart, but he makes very stupid decisions, and if he listened to you, he would still make very stupid decisions. Ukraine has fought hard, and that's not something that crossed Putin's mind before he decided to invade.

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That’s still stupid.
Putin never needed to think that Ukraine would be a simple takeover target; he, like all the world KNEW that it would have been had he gone in with the force he had available. He chose not to do so mistakenly believing that the US/UK that governs Ukraine would be rational.
But of course now you are going to spew deepState/vampiressVicky/CIA/MI6/OsamaBidementia bullSchiff