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    Irritatingly, this suggests that Putin doesn’t really know if his nukes work. If true, this badly breaks MAD.

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      this suggests that Putin doesn’t really know if his nukes work

      Sweet, more incoherent conspiracy theories backed by Liberal opinion pieces.

      Something something Russian oligarchs used up all the money with corruption and the state forgot to maintain the nuclear warheads (you know, the thing that insures America can’t just destroy the Russian state), pretty tired of this garbage.

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        The Russian “state” rapes its own soldiers, regularly and systematically. And then sends them to go do even worse to the Ukrainian civilians.

        It’s really, really not working right. It’s not doing for its own people what those people deserve.

        And just because you don’t like the US doesn’t mean you should like Putin’s Russia.

        (Me? At this point I’m all for whatever version of socialism or liberalism or social-democracy or whatever that says the Kurdish feminists are right, the Israeli dissidents are right, BLM is right, the Amazonian defenders are right, etc.; — and really, if your government rapes and tortures people, you’re not okay.)

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          Me? At this point I’m all for whatever version of socialism or liberalism or social-democracy or whatever that says the Kurdish feminists are right, the Israeli dissidents are right, BLM is right, the Amazonian defenders are right, etc.

          Liberalism bombed and still occupies Syria, backs the apartheid state of Israel, persecuted the BLM protesters and is currently destroying the Amazon forest.

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            Cool story. Putin’s army is currently raping young Russian men to prepare them to go rape Ukrainians.

            Like, right now that’s an ongoing thing. Not a previous administration, not a controversial doctrine.

            It’s going on right now as you’re reading this.

            Putinism is terrible for Russia. Bushism was terrible for Russia too, but that doesn’t help Oleg who’s being raped by his sergeant right now.

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              And the West created Putin by architecting the illegal dissolution of the Soviet Union and putting Yeltsin (the guy who chose Putin as his successor) in power.

              Not a previous administration

              It’s going on right now as you’re reading this.

              So is the occupation of Syria, the Palestinian genocide by Israel, nothing really changed about systemic racism in America and the Amazon forest is (right now, as you’re reading this) being destroyed, do you just forget things that happen as soon as they leave the MSM schedule?

              It’s not a “previous administration” thing lmao.

              Putinism is terrible for Russia

              Maybe the West shouldn’t have put him in power then?

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                Yeah! The stuff that went on in the 1990s was fucked up!

                Putin’s army still rapes its own recruits and is tearing through the young men of Russia like a psychopath with a chainsaw. They’ve managed to murder tens of thousands of young, virile Russian men.

                At this rate, there won’t be a next generation of Russians unless all of Putin’s buddies have a lot of girlfriends.

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                  The stuff that went on in the 1990s was fucked up

                  Not in the 90s, it’s happening RIGHT NOW.

                  Also what’s with the obsession with mentioning r-word in every reply? It gives off the vibe that you’re glad these things are happening so you have something bad to say about Russia, it’s pretty sick. You instantly jumped to that when I mentioned how absurd the “Russian nukes don’t work anymore” conspiracy theory is.

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        One could say that with every election. It’s always a gamble but when you start from such a low point it really doesn’t matter. Putin is a violent dictator using a scorched earth policy against Ukraine. He is ruthlessly suppressing LGBTQ people to the point where their existence cannot be spoke of. He kills his opponents and is engaged in an ongoing Cold War with the USA. He needs to go.

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          Also, given the lack of a clear successor, Putin’s death would likely lead to a power vacuum and infighting-- which means they’ll be too busy fighting each other to focus on attacking us.

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    https://archive.is/j7NqS if you don’t want to be assaulted by cookie notices and paywalls and more.

    Edit to add: I find it absurd how this logic is used so often:

    He insisted that Russia was justified in starting the war because Ukraine was run by “Nazis”, even though its president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, is Jewish.

    It’s logical nonsense to think the two are mutually exclusive. Moreover, it ignores the very real issue of Nazis in Ukraine. We even see this “don’t believe your eyes” nonsense, trying to convince people open and proud Nazis aren’t in fact Nazis.