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kleinbl00  ·  2030 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Scene report from the Chernobyl Zone

    What I don't get is the continued fascination with Russia and fetishization of them as Dr Evil-type nogoodniks.

Seriously? 'cuz as soon as Yeltsin was out, our Free Market Makeover of Russia was over and the KGB was running things same as they ever were.

    TOMORROW leaders could flip the script on Russia, expose their sad economic numbers, their lack of ability to mobilize, their cartoonish Cold War-style efforts in the various -istans, and their flaccid attempts at projecting power in the middle east, and quickly turn the Russia narrative from Evil Empire to the KGB's Clown-like Grandchildren.

How the fuck do you expect to sell $350m F-35s with that kind of attitude, young man?