• SleafordMod@feddit.uk
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    17 hours ago

    I don’t think it’s just Putin which is why I mentioned the megalomania of other Russian elites. But Putin surely made the final decision to invade.

    • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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      17 hours ago

      Believing history to be driven by the egos of a few individuals and divorcing it entirely from materialist analysis is Great Man Theory, though. Ego may have played a small factor, but certainly not the driving force.