say that Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine was to be expected. There had been signs after Russia illegally annexed Crimea in 2014 that its president had ambitions beyond the Black Sea peninsula. But data show that Mr Putin’s war of conquest defies anWarfare remains common across the world, as the invasion of Iraq, war in Afghanistan and many civil wars in sub-Saharan Africa and elsewhere attest.
The number of attempted conquests has sharply declined in the past 50 years and invaders’ ambitions have changed. What Mr Putin tried to do in Ukraine—to seize the territory of an entire country—was last attempted when Saddam Hussein tried to take over Kuwait in 1990. He failed. In 1975, Indonesia conquered East Timor, but East Timor returned to independence in 2002. Going back even further, the only comparable attempts were those to reunite Korea in 1950 and Vietnam in 1974.
Mr Putin could yet buck this trend. But the war in Ukraine is going poorly for him. Early on he had to abandon his plans to take Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital, and in September a Ukrainian counter-offensive regained Kharkiv province. Mr Putin does not look destined to be remembered as a conqueror. He may instead enter the history books as the man who sacrificed the lives of tens of thousands of Russians and Ukrainians to his own ambition.
With the same talking: What would you say to every USA and British invasion where not only their country men and women died but also millons of invaidees only for selfish and ambitious goals and destruction.
Look who is talking. You theEconomist spread twisted social and económic analysis just to keep up with the owners policías of manuevering people's minds.
Despot Putin will also enter in the history books as the dictator, who brought to a terrible end to the Russian empire.
Putin será recordado como el Hombre que le puso un alto a la codicia USA ,UK OTAN ☝️😌 Salvando al Mundo de un desastre sin precedentes y dejando a aquellos vueltos locos de ira, hambre de recursos y dinero ajeno.. 😏 éso es todo..
Vlad will be remembered as the sole and single person stopping the WEF'FERS and the Illuminati / Globalists which I call the FEEMASONS as they all live and get paid FEES on everything WE do. As expected, the jews are part of the Khazarian Mafia, they are IN this big time.
HOW MANY LIVES WERE SACRIFICED BY U.S. IN AFGHANISTAN, IRAQ, LIBYA AND ALL OTHER OCCUPIED COUNTRIES BY U.S.
Will have far better results than the baby killers in Vietnam, Irak, so on...
Victims of American families in Vietnam and Afghanistan cry in a corner.
According to you westerns.
Putin's legacy in conquering and colonising Europe is viewed in the same light by the Western media as was Hitler's for a German Europe!
Putin will be remembered for what he is, a vicious mafia boss.
Bollox
I m impressed how US media manages US citizens. US army goes to Afghanistan, Vietnam, Cuba. Has bases around the world. But still shows Putin as conqueror. And we r discounting the European imperial invasions too.
Just replace the name of Putin with Bush and Ukraine with Afghanistan and Iraq.
Politbüro’nun yazacağı tarihte son Çar petro olarak ismi yazılır ama insanlık tarihine ülkesine ençok zarar veren lider olarak yazar
So a standard Russian leader is what you’re saying…
Well from the one who gave trillions of public resources to the Oligarchs, where outside Moscow and St. Petersburg they are still peasants at €200 a month Let's say Elstin was less MAFIOUS and more loyal to the PEOPLE who don't count a bat in Russia pure rabble to be succubized
Dont you shame on while such stupid things?do you think people believe in you? You offended like hungry dog to him.
Putin Is egoist
Another tag for Putin: the only KGB agent being defeated by an actor!
You would think with all the US military bases all over the world we would have stopped him. ROFL.
When the west, a conqueror said Vladimir Putin is a conqueror. 😆 Exactly the pot calling the kettle black.
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We need to pump up those numbers I say we invade the ivory coast.
US as the superpower can portray anyone like anything
More globalist propaganda.
I bet the Nazi Republicans are on Putins side him and trump buddy buddy
And what USA tried to do with Viet Nam, Panama, Grenade, Irak, Afghanistan, Yougoslavia and frankly, Europe at the end of WWII?
No so.
Do you think Israel will also fail?
Interesting
Eritrea vs Ethiopia?
Nations can conquest and pillage and give the false name of 'Empire'. They leave nothing but desolation and call it 'Peace'.
Putin is Hitler in 2022
Putin’s final moments will also be similar to Saddam’s
Really? Mam’s for dad?
Apart from multiple failed attempts by the good old USA
Putin the butcher by wars. Xi Jinpang the butcher by covid wars.
Complete bullocks; utter nonsense! The Economist has disgraced itself on this issue! Plainly, NATO breached its word to Russia, expanding near its border, stoking discord. It’s a lie to suggest otherwise! Meanwhile, Britain is arming the slaughter of Yemen! Talk that!
Western countries have been notoriuous in gobbling First Nations all over the world in the last 500 years. Lest We Forget!
Tell that to those illegally entering and residing in the United States?
My mom is really 47
Remove the Russian war criminal today, and the whole world would be thankful!
My father, WWII RCN vet, used to say, you can occupy a country, you can't occupy its people.
'Vladimir Putin wants to be a conqueror' Well, how about we won't let him?
Economist is wrong again
Russia is not in a war of conquest. They recognized the independence of the Donbass Republics' referenda and were invited in to protect them from attack. That's what the US did in Kosovo and then bombed Serbia
Rofl. Russia „gobbled up“ the whole of Ukraine? News at 11.
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