• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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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.