The only thing I like about Trump is exactly what so many empire managers hate about him: he gives the game away. He says the quiet parts out loud. He’s the only president who’ll openly boast that US troops are in Syria taking the oil or lament that they failed to take the oil from Venezuela, or just come right out and tell everyone he’s bought and owned by Zionist oligarchs.

Trump is the opposite of Obama, who was very skillful at putting a pretty face on the evil empire. Trump puts a very ugly face on a very ugly thing. He is a much more honest face to have on the empire. A crude, stupid plutocrat who is owned by other plutocrats is the perfect representative of that tyrannical power structure.

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    In 1994, Russia signed the Budapest Memorandum which requires the US and UK to defend Ukraine.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine_and_weapons_of_mass_destruction#:~:text=In 1994%2C Ukraine agreed to,sovereignty in the existing borders.

    Russia had already violated their 1994 agreement with Ukraine when they invaded Crimea in 2012.

    Russia specifically claimed they were only holding practice exercises before their sneak invasion.

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      The liberation of Crimea was in 2014. It’s unclear how treaties should affect a province/people requesting assistance from oppression, as a result of a fascist coup, incidently by US and UK. Not surprising that a treaty is not interpreted as a suicide pact.

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        You already lost the argument about fascist when you invaded with troops named after Hitler.

        Putin has been in power for 24 years!

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          Putin has been in power for 24 years!

          Zionist Supremacists and all oligarchy that allies with them for their seat at the trough, have been in control over US for 75 years. Russia’s military production complex is largely owned by Russia and doesn’t have to operate at a profit. In US, they own you, and don’t have to produce working equipment to take all of your money.

          The core definition of naziism includes anti-communist/soviet ideology that for Ukraine has morphed into anti-ethnic Russian ideology. I’m sure there is a Russia that owns Hitler’s favorite breed of dog as well, and you should use that to totally be convincing in your trolling.

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            anti-communist/soviet

            There is no communism in Russia today. Industry is owned by private individuals.

            Zionists? Because Nazis are famous for supporting Jews?

            In US, they own you, and don’t have to produce working equipment to take all of your money.

            Why are there so many Russian billionaires?

            https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_oligarchs

            https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/07/31/russian-billionaires-supply-kremlins-army-military-industrial-complex-proekt-a82013

            None of the Russian Millionaires and Billionaires actually produced their wealth. They got it from extracting the surplus value of the workers in their companies. Russia is capitalist and has been since 1991.

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              Much of them from CIA puppet Yeltsin regime. Yes, Putin allowed most of the rich to stay rich. But this war is not a giveaway to Russian oligarchs the way it is in the US.

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                Putin didn’t just allow them to stay rich. He made them rich.

                https://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/moscow/deripaska.html#:~:text=Oleg Deripaska%2C born in 1968%2C is,Russia's youngest billionaire at age 35.

                https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavel_Durov

                https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gennady_Timchenko “In 1991, Putin gave Timchenko an oil export license.[2] Timchenko then founded Gunvor, which has now exported billions of dollars-worth of Russian oil.”

                Why is Yeltsin a CIA puppet and not also Putin? Putin has given the US everything they wanted. Russia’s military and youth have been diminished. Former Russian friendly / Neutral countries have joined NATO. Russian natural resources have been internationally sanctioned giving a business advantage to the US. Putin works for America.

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                  Deripaska may have had corrupt aid from CIA puppet Yeltsin. He is married to his daughter. Telegram guy didn’t make his money from Russia government. Timchenko also got rich under Gorbachoev/Yeltsin. Link connecting him to Putin was “receiving an oil export license”. Before Putin got into leadership.

                  Why is Yeltsin a CIA puppet and not also Putin? Putin has given the US everything they wanted.

                  Yeltsin (and Gorbo) gave away most of the “sweet privatization” to west. Movies from the period treat Russia as joining humanity. Western media has invoked Putin Derangement Syndrome on the sheeple ever since, largely due to his anti corruption efforts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_in_Russia

                  Russia’s military and youth have been diminished. Former Russian friendly / Neutral countries have joined NATO. Russian natural resources have been internationally sanctioned giving a business advantage to the US. Putin works for America.

                  Since the war, Russia has passed Germany and Japan to be 4th largest economy. Any Russian who is not a demented former Yeltsin puppet understands that NATO is not a defensive alliance, and Ukraine’s war provocation is an existential threat to Russia that must be defeated. The gains made by Biden over EU colonies was absolutely spectacular for the US, but new admin threatens their commitment to subservience. Narrative that Russia is winning seems closer to reality.

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                    You can’t blame new billionaires on Yeltsin when Putin has been in power over 2x longer than Yeltsin.

                    Any Russian who is not a demented former Yeltsin puppet understands that NATO is not a defensive alliance,

                    Yet Putin gave America everything they wanted- an expanded NATO from countries that were formerly neutral.

                    As to Russia surpassing Germany and Japan, that’s not supported by any data:

                    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)