• ssj2marx@lemmy.ml
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    5 months ago

    Your knowledge of history is pretty shallow. Just talking about the post-USSR, Yeltsin and Putin were literally put in place by the CIA and for two decades did everything they could to appease America and Europe - they wanted to join NATO, they wanted to join the EU, and they were rebuffed. Putin broke with the west only after it became clear that he would never ever be let into “the club” and that the west’s vision of Russia’s future was as a completely de-industrialized gas and mineral exporter and nothing more.