“Putin continues to believe that Russia is under threat and almost certainly assumes that a larger, better-equipped military will convey that opinion to Western and domestic audiences,” Director of U.S. National Intelligence Avril Haines said.

  • Whirling_Ashandarei@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    They usually go with first names with “the” titles. So he’d be going for Vlad the… (Or Volo I guess in actual Russian).

    But I still think he’s closer to Vlad the Impotent than Vlad the Impaler as far as getting remembered.