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J_William_Ryan

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Reply to Quixote1818 (Original post)

Sat Jan 14, 2017, 11:51 PM

Jan 2017

Putin is an authoritarian, a warmonger, and someone who seeks to compel conformity and punish dissent.

The irony is that this was true of Soviet leaders during the Soviet Era – behavior now admired and supported by most American conservatives because Putin is not a ‘communist.’

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