2026-09-23 19:45 UTC
@mike805@noc.social
"But if Western finance had not screwed over Russia in the 1990s"
oh fuck you
i hate this blame shifting bullshit
russia is the way russia is because of russia
"well someone did something long ago and that bears 100% responsibility for the way things are today if we ignore 1,000 other factors" is disinfo, at best
that doesn't mean i think the west is angels and rainbows
it means malice comes from many sources in the world, not just one
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@mike805@noc.social 2026-09-23 19:52
@benroyce@mastodon.social Yes, Russia has always been a pretty nasty place. In moral terms it is not part of Western civilization. However, it is well-documented that New York finance funded the early Bolsheviks when the latter were about to go broke. The USA also assisted Russia's 1930s arms buildup, which was paid for by stealing and selling Ukraine's food. And in the 1990s, Western-backed oligarchs plundered Russia's oil and uranium, among other things. Putin is popular partly because he made that stop.