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This but unironically. In general though, there is nothing more galling than liberals complaining about Russia. You made it this way. This is on you. First you destroy the soviet union, then you reconfigure the politics and economy of Russia, and then you have the audacity to complain about the very thing you caused.
Ah yes, well known liberal checks notes George Bush.
Russia cannibalised itself after the Soviet Union fell, didn't need any Western help there.
Please lookup the Shock Doctrine and educate yourself
I'm not reading a pop politics book for you. Go read The Gulag Archipelago.
I have. But unlike a book about Boris Yeltsin's systemic hollowing out of the russian economy and the facilitation of this by the Americans, its hardly relevant.
Although if we are bringing up the gulag archipelago, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is not on your side on the issues. Especially not issues like the yeltsin government, the west's influence on Russia and Russian sovereignty.
If that's your takeaway, you haven't.
You really thinks that if I don't think the gulag archipelago is about the yeltsin government then I haven't read it? That's just sad dude. That's just really, really sad.
“Excuse me but my book was spawned at the beginning of time with no creator and thus no bias or agenda, and is a crystal of pure truth, and yours is poopy tankie peepee”
I don't care about antisemitic noblemen. His book is fake, and he's lucky he wasn't killed.
"I'm not reading pop politics, go read literal fiction"
The one written literally decades before the events in question?