GodlessCommie@lemmy.worldM to Late Stage Capitalism@lemmy.worldEnglish · 19 days agoBut they claim it's Russia interfering in our elections to deflect from the real problemimagemessage-square170linkfedilinkarrow-up1560arrow-down143
arrow-up1517arrow-down1imageBut they claim it's Russia interfering in our elections to deflect from the real problemGodlessCommie@lemmy.worldM to Late Stage Capitalism@lemmy.worldEnglish · 19 days agomessage-square170linkfedilink
minus-squareUnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·18 days ago The elites turned a blind eye. They were enthusiastic accomplices. The courts saw him as too costly to prosecute fully. So they prosecuted the most broke and vulnerable, instead. Putin was still a part of this As a scapegoat, a boogeyman, and a useful idiot who could justify another generation of Western military industrial economic looting.
minus-squareDuamerthrax@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·18 days agoI think Ukrainas might have an opinion to Putin being called a scapegoat.
minus-squareUnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·18 days agoThe whole eastern block got demolished by Shock Therapy back in the 90s/00s. Zelensky and Putin are fighting over table scraps.
They were enthusiastic accomplices.
So they prosecuted the most broke and vulnerable, instead.
As a scapegoat, a boogeyman, and a useful idiot who could justify another generation of Western military industrial economic looting.
I think Ukrainas might have an opinion to Putin being called a scapegoat.
The whole eastern block got demolished by Shock Therapy back in the 90s/00s.
Zelensky and Putin are fighting over table scraps.