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That last part you got wrong

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• throwaway0x7E6 4y ago
  who will give those microstates massive loans they would need to stay afloat? who will fund the election campaigns and favorable media coverage for the agreeable candidates and parties? whose arms will they buy and whose military bases will they build to defend themselves against each other and/or what little is left of Russia and/or China? whose companies will get contracts for resource extraction and favorable conditions to operate there? ... the collapse of Russia would be a greater boon to the US than the WWII was, and had Russia been a benevolent democracy, it would've been at least halfway there by now
  • leaflets2 4y ago
    The greatest boon to the US would be if Russia transformed itself into a democracy. And for the people in Russia. I hope there's a chance that'll happen if indeed Putin has an illness and is dead soon > the US wants Russia broken down into two dozen irrelevant ethnostates That's delusional and was what I was replying to.
    • throwaway0x7E6 4y ago
      to someone with a redditor's level of understanding the geopolitics, sure
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