Fuck 'em. The USSR lost the Cold War. The West should've strangled (Reply #7)

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Sun Mar 6, 2022, 12:12 AM

radius777 (3,493 posts)

7. Fuck 'em. The USSR lost the Cold War. The West should've strangled

any remaining authoritarian elements into submission when we had the chance, and should've more forcefully supported pro-democracy and pro-market movements. Europe appeased Putin due to wanting his oil and oligarch money - that is why Ukraine and Georgia are not in NATO like they should be.

Putin isn't 'scared' of NATO or Ukraine. He's jealous that the world largely turned Westward after the USSR fell. Even many Russians love the Western consumerism they are suddenly going to be cut off from.

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12 replies	Author	Time	Post
On Ukraine and Russia [View all]	DonCoquixote	Mar 2022	OP
And looking to the future... when Putin is gone.	WarGamer	Mar 2022	#1
So many things to say, but let's start with this: how exactly did we force them to privatize	Scrivener7	Mar 2022	#2
here you go	DonCoquixote	Mar 2022	#10
And you interpret that to mean we forced them to privatize? .... OK.... But no.	Scrivener7	Mar 2022	#11
Stop repeating Kremlin talking points: this is not about NATO expansion	Arazi	Mar 2022	#3
we did it for germany	DonCoquixote	Mar 2022	#4
Here's the current Russian Minister of Defense.	Igel	Mar 2022	#5
What happen in Russia after the USSR fell apart is not our fault.	brush	Mar 2022	#6
Fuck 'em. The USSR lost the Cold War. The West should've strangled	radius777	Mar 2022	#7
Nope! Nt	USALiberal	Mar 2022	#8
Yeltsin's period in power is the key.	Emrys	Mar 2022	#9
We never promised not to expand NATO east	Happy Hoosier	Mar 2022	#12

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