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re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict

Posted on 5/17/24 at 1:57 pm to
Posted by doubleb
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Posted on 5/17/24 at 1:57 pm to
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Yeltsin and Putin were as similar as Biden and Trump.


And you believe Trump ran the govt. by himself? He did whatever he wanted?
Posted by NC_Tigah
Carolinas
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Posted on 5/17/24 at 3:36 pm to
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And you believe Trump ran the govt. by himself? He did whatever he wanted?
Disappointing response. You are normally more contemplative. Especially when you feel confident enough to toss out invectives. Neither Hindenburg nor Hitler ran the German government by themselves .... at least at first.

Yeltsin, had we supported him, was prepared to take Russia in a completely different direction. Instead, a POTUS got caught up in a blow job scandal and decided to play international tough guy. We expanded NATO eastward and did other things, undercutting Yeltsin. The result was Putin.

You claim we should not have done more to bolster Yeltsin, or lessen the chance accession of a nationalist autocrat like Putin. You labeled my precept that we could have (and should have) as "stupid," which is bizarre.
This post was edited on 5/17/24 at 3:47 pm
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