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Yavin4

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4. Putin wants ALL liberal, open, democratic states to fall, not just the U.S.

Reply to ck4829 (Original post)

Mon Aug 27, 2018, 11:31 AM

Aug 2018

He wants the UK, France, Germany, etc. to also fail. Why? He wants to control the former Soviet satellite nations like Ukraine, Georgia, Crimea, etc. He doesn't want them making alliances with prosperous, strong democratic states like the EU and the US.

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Russia doesn't want us divided, because it's just a means not an end [View all] ck4829 Aug 2018 OP

No, he wants us divided and destroyed and weakened and so on. Eliot Rosewater Aug 2018 #1

+1 2naSalit Aug 2018 #2

Putin realized that the success of a democracy depends on its people basically wanting the same unitedwethrive Aug 2018 #3

Putin wants ALL liberal, open, democratic states to fall, not just the U.S. Yavin4 Aug 2018 #4