The Russian dictator has bent the world, including the United States, to his vision.

The Russian dictator has bent the world, including the United States, to his vision.

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    • ShadowRam@fedia.io
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      3 days ago

      I think Putin’s push is a direct result of US and UK just straight up ignoring the cooperation of the UN Security Council in 2001.

      Against the entire world wishes, votes and resolutions passed in the UN…

      The US and UK straight up ignored it all and invaded a sovereign nation.

      Once that precedent was established, and it was obvious the decorum of the UN Security Council wasn’t going to be respected, Russia and China changed gears…

      When they realized that any buffoon (Bush) could one day just be put in charge of the US and decide to invade another country and nothing would stop them, they started preparing long term.

    • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      3 days ago

      I’m not even sure if brainwashed is the right term since it’s clearly a deep anti-intellectualism coupled with deep resentment of established society. They have been voting for this kind of thing in the USA long before Putin got his disinformation machine involved.

      You kind of need a brain to have washed and “you’ve got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know… morons.”