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Re:Dmitri Alperovitc: “Putin speech is over. Chilling. War h... by csee on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @10:57PM (#30450053)
Trump speaks well of Putin, so the right-wing commentators also speak well of Putin. They also feel he was maligned unfairly by the Steele Dossier Russia stuff, so to "own the libs" as revenge they embrace the dictator Putin.
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Re:Dmitri Alperovitc: “Putin speech is over. Chilling. War h... by woodruffw on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @11:02PM (#30450099)
Oh, sure -- I get the "meta-game" of it. But "State Department client state" feels like a remarkably...flabby reproach.
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Re:Dmitri Alperovitc: “Putin speech is over. Chilling. War h... by artificial on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @11:04PM (#30450114)
Hunter was getting $50k a month from a Ukraine gas company. [0] There’s definitely a conflict of interest with the administration. Also Biden bragging about getting a prosecutor fired and threatening to withhold aid. [1] https://youtu.be/UXA--dj2-CY [0] https://www.wsj.com/articles/republican-probe-finds-hunter-b...
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Re:Dmitri Alperovitc: “Putin speech is over. Chilling. War h... by woodruffw on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @11:06PM (#30450133)
Discarding the truth value of these claims: this doesn't explain why Ukraine is characterized as a "State Department client state." Hunter Biden is not a member of the executive branch.
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