> russia is poor because its an authoritarian shithole run by oligarchs, not because the west for some vague reason went out of their way to screw them. do you know anything about the last hundred years of history? the cold war was basically attempting to sanction the ussr into not existing. then the 90s liberalization was western backed oligarchs taking everything of value for themselves. not surprising that the sanctions, glowbot proxy wars and everything else started once putin started kicking these people out.
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