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Arazi

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3. Stop repeating Kremlin talking points: this is not about NATO expansion

Sat Mar 5, 2022, 11:03 PM

Mar 2022

Putin is trying to put the USSR back together because HE feels humiliated by its breakup.

He’s 70 years old. He’s trying to forge a legacy.

However we fucked up post 1991, the fact remains Russia has never been a democracy in its entire existence. I’m not sure we could have “helped” Russia towards being a democracy at that point since we’ve always had much more capitalistic designs than democratic ones on fledgeling countries.

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On Ukraine and Russia [View all] DonCoquixote Mar 2022 OP

And looking to the future... when Putin is gone. WarGamer Mar 2022 #1

So many things to say, but let's start with this: how exactly did we force them to privatize Scrivener7 Mar 2022 #2

here you go DonCoquixote Mar 2022 #10

And you interpret that to mean we forced them to privatize? .... OK.... But no. Scrivener7 Mar 2022 #11

Stop repeating Kremlin talking points: this is not about NATO expansion Arazi Mar 2022 #3

we did it for germany DonCoquixote Mar 2022 #4

Here's the current Russian Minister of Defense. Igel Mar 2022 #5

What happen in Russia after the USSR fell apart is not our fault. brush Mar 2022 #6

Fuck 'em. The USSR lost the Cold War. The West should've strangled radius777 Mar 2022 #7

Nope! Nt USALiberal Mar 2022 #8

Yeltsin's period in power is the key. Emrys Mar 2022 #9

We never promised not to expand NATO east Happy Hoosier Mar 2022 #12