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  • sarsaparilyptus@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Which is almost literally a tale as old as time. This sequence:

    • invade another country to take their shit
    • oops it’s not going so well
    • hire mercenaries with no morals to wreck stuff
    • don’t pay your mercenary bills and/or attack them for being too powerful
    • the mercenaries sack your own cities

    That’s not just modern times, and it’s not even just medieval times: I’m pretty sure at least one Assyrian king was deposed that way. People like Putin are doomed to repeat history, it’s their lot in life.