• Deflated0ne@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    Love that anyone who isn’t a slavish puppet state of the US is automatically assigned as the slavish puppet state of the US’s geopolitical enemy.

    Goldfish brain foreign policy.

  • davel@lemmy.ml
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    7 days ago

    There’s an old saying in Tennessee—I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee—that says, “Fool me once, shame on…shame on you.” Fool me—you can’t get fooled again. — GWB

    Russia already got owned once, and Putin helped get it un-owned. It’s still got oligarchs, but at least they’re not imperial core compradors anymore.

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    7 days ago

    Ahh yes, Russia the oligarchy which ‘refuses to be owned’.

    That Russia, that is owned by private capital concentrated into the hands of the few?

    Where 500 people own more than the rest of the country combined?

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      7 days ago

      They mean owned by foreign capital. I agree that Russian capitalism is bad but thats not what they are talking about