Originally Posted by
Alice in Russia
Putin is fascist. This is not a curse word, but a statement of his belonging to the ideology first formulated by Mussolini. For fascists the territory is more valuable than people.
It appears he's also using Mussolini's handbook on how to start a war without addressing his military capability.
Other people's land is always more important than their own people for those who start wars but do not fight themselves.
“When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.” Edumnd Burke