• Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM
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    5 months ago

    I get it now! This was in the works for years! Western business interests installed Putin as a sleeper agent in Russia and then forced him to invade Ukraine!

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      5 months ago

      If it werent for US interference in Russian elections under Clinton we wouldnt have Putin. But no, the US started this process years before.

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        5 months ago

        I’m pretty sure Yeltsin is the reason Russia has Putin.

        Yeltsin oversaw the dissolution of the ussr and brought capitalism to Russia, of course the west wanted him to be president of Russia. All he did was ask Bill for favors on the world stage (and got most of what he asked for).

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          5 months ago

          Before the election Yeltsin had a 6% approval rating, and somehow won the election by a landslide.

          “Yanks to the rescue” was the headline by Time Magazine

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        5 months ago

        Got it. Clinton interfered with the Russian elections in the 1990s knowing that one day, Putin would become dictator-for-life and invade Ukraine on a spurious pretext in order to create new business interests for Western companies.

        Sounds very plausible.

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          5 months ago

          Clinton is to blame for the entire Putin ordeal. Had the US not interfered, Yeltsin would have never been reelected and Putin would have never risen to where he is now.