Comment on Portuguese president calls Trump Soviet or Russian agent

• tranes@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  So your belief is that trump is acting on behalf of a government that has not existed for 40 years?

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  • osaerisxero@kbin.melroy.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The allegation is that it was more of a 'meet the new boss, same as the old boss' situation for him.

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    • tranes@lemmy.ca ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah except the criminals who run Russia now are not communists so they’re not the same at all

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      • JimmyMcGill@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Different ideologies Same bosses/corruption

        You think Putin isn’t were he is because of what the Soviet Union had before? He didn’t throw it all away

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  • ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You are being pedantic and you know it.

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  • psvrh@lemmy.ca ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Putin was a mid/upper KGB functionary.

    And that a very large number of the people who did very well put of the collapse of the USSR were former communist party officials who got in early on raiding the USSR’s corpse.

    Trump isn’t acting on behalf of the USSR in general, but he definitely is funded by and owes favours to older wealthy Russians.

    One older Russian, in particular.

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