• The Assman@sh.itjust.works
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      5 months ago

      I mean I’m surprised it took this long. We learned a year ago you can just walk the fuck up to Moscow with zero repercussions.

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        They marched up there with no resistance, but they shortly thereafter blew the guys plane out of the air. That’s a pretty big repercussion.

      • verity_kindle@sh.itjust.worksM
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        I would have assumed that would be the most difficult part of toppling Putin, yes. However…the tech elite that prop up his power in the big cities are fickle. Source: essay collection “Putin’s Russia: How It Rose, How It Is Maintained, and How It Might End” Dimitriev, Gontmakher, Gudkov, et al. Pub. American Enterprise Institute, 2015.

        10/10 read. More NCD than it sounds.

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    That is a pretty view. It’d be even prettier lined with billboards for Ukrainian soup shops and ushanka t-shirts. EDIT: DA SPELLING

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        Ok, then, just put them on the roof of that castle. That castle, it’s supposed to be red, it’s not, I wouldn’t rule there, shithole castle. Let’s advertise on it, it’s got to be red.