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RockRaven

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6. They didn't do it *for* us/the west. They did it for themselves.
Wed Nov 2, 2022, 02:51 PM
Nov 2022

Did we benefit? Yeah. Just like they benefited from us, but we weren't doing it for them either.

It was just a mutual "enemy of my enemy" situation. And those things don't last.

Anyone loving Putin because of what Stalin and the Red Army did 7 decades ago is sick in the head several times over.

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