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The Victor Davis Hanson Show

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Putin Wants to Have a Long War

Putin wants to have a long war because he'll keep the Ukraine out of NATO that way. The military industrial complex will benefit from a long war and China as long as the United States is depleted by the war, it grows stronger. I don't know Putin is a beneficiary. He made a strategic mistake when he thought that he could have a thunder road lightning strike to decapitate the government in Kiev and just absorb the country. If you ask Putin today, go back a year ago to February 23rd, would you do what you're doing now? He would say no. And then he talked about all the reasons why he didn't go into Russia but they were going to attack all these

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