• ✺roguetrick✺@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    Be a puppet state either way, she just wants to signal that she’d be an enthusiastic puppet.

    Her entire legitimacy at this point consists of being recognized by Western organizations and now grovelling to a hostile foreign power. She’d be the worst type of puppet.

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      10 hours ago

      I’m not so sure

      Assuming she is appointed as the leader of the country, she can use that position to save people from callous deaths that would otherwise happen with a full US occupation.

      It’s a harm reduction measure, rather than a path to victory