• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    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.