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He's an autocrat acting on delusions of empire building. That is the root of Russia invading Ukraine. All the other excuses are ancillary or nonsense (Nazis etc)



True, but unrelated to whether he's a communist. There are authoritarian and libertarian communists but Putin is neither.




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