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gulliver

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3. Putin may have made a mistake

Reply to TheProle (Original post)

Sun Mar 1, 2026, 01:16 PM

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It's a bit tinfoil hat, but suppose Putin encouraged Iran to encourage Hamas to do the Oct. 7th atrocities. Putin might have wanted to distract from Ukraine and get Trump elected. He might have used Iran as a cat's paw. Now he's probably lost his drone supply at a minimum.

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