In Canada there was a company using an LLM chatbot who had to uphold a claim the bot had made to one of their customers. So there's precedence for forcing companies to take responsibility for what their LLMs says (at least if they're presenting it as trustworthy and representative)
Putin is a madman who wants more power and more land and more people under his control. They genuinely thought the Ukrainians would give up within days.
All the intel from that time shows they didn't expect lasting resistance. They expected to be able to hunt and execute everybody who had been part of the old government without any hickups, then just take over. And this was supposed to happen after a false flag attack on Russian soil, blamed on the Ukranian government, most likely together with a PR flood trying to convince the population that they would be safer under Russian rule due to their own government "being too dangerous / erratic" or whatever else.
The balance between Putin's and other oligarchs' power is not very stable given how many of them he has had killed. He's relying on fear to keep them all from ganging up in him way once, just like how he relies on fear with everything else.
25-30K fighters, 20-30% killed, so at best ~10K down to ~5K, assuming their intel is correct. It's very strange that the estimate of killed fighters is in percent and injuries is in absolute numbers. Doesn't make me feel confident they got the context right of the numbers shared
Why is it sociopathic to want Ukrainians to be free instead of being tortured and abused daily for the next several decades?
I don't think you actually believe Ukrainians will be safe if they stop resisting. You should know, because if the majority of Ukrainians actually would prefer Russian rule they'd just stop fighting and no amount of weapons sent to them would keep the war going.
If Russia has legitimate reasons, why are all the reasons they give for their actions always a bunch of lies?
Why did they have to stage false flag terror attacks on their own soil to justify an attack? Why do they have to doctor footage, make up fake citizens, and twist history?
If they have the truth on their side, why not tell the truth?
But it has to be clearly presented. Consumer law and defamation law has different requirements on disclaimers