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Is Spanning Tree Protocol Needed?

If there are two switches connected directly together with two links is spanning tree protocol needed? please see below snippet
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What is the EtherType of a BPDU frame sent by a switch which runs Spanning Tree Protocol

I want to know what is the EtherType field of a BPDU frame in various versions and variants of the Spanning Tree Protocol.
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Mixing Cisco STP Features: BPDU Guard, BPDU Filter, PortFast and PortFast Trunk

I have two switches (Cisco 2960's) with a trunk between them (two ports in an ether-channel) and each has a trunk up to a separate router, all other switch ports are access ports to end devices; R1 ...
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Are multiple links with different VLANs between two switches possible?

I'm not considering Etherchannel or LACP. Given 2 Ethernet switches A and B, where both switches have port 0 configured as a tagged trunk for VLAN 100 and 101 and port 1 configured as a tagged trunk ...
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