• Deflated0ne@lemmy.world
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    7 months 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 months 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 months ago

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