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The Spy War: How the C.I.A. Secretly Helps Ukraine Fight Putin (www.nytimes.com)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

@andyburke I totally agree with you tho. Putin and his enablers in Russia chose to invade Ukraine. It is 100% on him and them.

@ikidd and I are just speculating on some of the factors in his decision to do that.

Life is a complex tapestry. It's not just one or two people making decisions in a complete void.

I mean if you're old like me you can remember back when Gorbachev was trying to transition to democracy and the CIA jumped in to kingmake Yeltsin and his unregulated market, ushering in the rise of unchecked oligarchy that put Putin in power in the first place.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This is why Putin is popular: he kicked the Global North neocolonialists out of the country.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Which by all indications was something he didn’t actually want to do in the first place. It’s just the west wasn’t ready to give up exploiting the people of the former USSR. If Putin allowed that to continue he would have likely lost his power just as Yeltsin had.