• Saapas@piefed.zip
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      23 hours ago

      It just targets “Westoids” meanwhile that’s what Russia is doing right now, that’s why I wanted clarification

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        14 hours ago

        that’s what Russia is doing right now

        Russia has been part of the West since Yeltsin shelled the Moscow Parliament into submission.

        The Cold War ended 30 years ago. Capitalism won. What we’re experiencing today is post-Soviet imperial powers in a turf war.

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          12 hours ago

          When people talk of Western world Russia is pretty often not counted in that

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            6 hours ago

            When George Bush Jr was meeting with Vladimir Putin to coordinate the War on Terror across Central Asia, “people” did.

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        20 hours ago

        It’s really all nation states. But yeah it doesn’t take away from criticising the west who loves to paint themselves as guaranteer of human rights or whatever.