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• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Putin wouldn’t be President of Russia if the US and the USSR had been able to settle their differences without a 60 year long series of proxy wars and regime changes. Neither would Trump, for that matter.

  You played yourselves.

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  • Ushmel@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Putin is in power specifically because they settled their differences and Yeltsin was such a drunk idiot that it pushed people to vote for someone who promised stability and prosperity. Putin wasn’t very anti-West until the 2010s. I’m old enough to remember when there was mild talk about Russia joining NATO.

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    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yeltsin was such a drunk idiot

      Backed by the US in a coup against the Russian government

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  • Nico_198X@europe.pub ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    sure, jan.

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