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>The only argument I’ve ever read that makes any sense is Putin thinks the cia causes color revolutions and he’s too stupid and up his own ass to work out that people just don’t like living in corrupt autocracies riddled with endemic poverty.
Given that they legitimately expected the Ukrainians to welcome them as liberators, it would seem that not only was that the pre-2022 thinking, but Putin's FSB was telling him that their own version of it WAS WORKING in Ukraine.