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UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
sure, jan.

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