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Re:Mikhail Gorbachev has died by Ygg2 on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @08:54AM (#32661450)
Damn that Putin is both very weak (his Country has GDP of Texas while having way more people), and absolute mastermind organizing far right as some kind of pauper Lex Luthor, on a shoestring budget.

Disclaimer: Western troubles are features of capitalism, they provide the fuel, even if Putin is the one to throw the cigarette butt.

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Re:Mikhail Gorbachev has died by mvc on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @07:32PM (#32669711)
Check my comment history here. You'll see I'm no particular fan of capitalism.

And of course the far-right existed before Putin.

But he is the head of a mafia organization that controls the world's largest supply of natural gas. So I think funding a few right-wing grifters/useful idiots like Steve Bannon and Nigel Farage is within their capabilities.

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