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kentuck

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5. I think Russia has been weakened since the break-up of the old Soviet Union.

Reply to bucolic_frolic (Reply #4)

Fri May 6, 2022, 07:53 AM

May 2022

But, with their old KGB establishment and their wealthy oligarchs, they were able to give the world the illusion that they were still the the old super power they were as the Soviet Union.

They are still the largest nuclear power in the world. It is to everyone's interest that those weapons never fall into the wrong hands.

Putin was and is a threat to the world.

Joe Biden is not Donald Trump.

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