• Sanctus@lemmy.world
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    19 hours ago

    Looks like Russia won the ideological war and will be exporting authoritarianism to the globe.

    • 9point6@lemmy.world
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      18 hours ago

      The main thing to remember about authoritarians is that none have ever been documented to be impervious to small pieces of metal moving at high speed.

    • IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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      18 hours ago

      This isn’t a nationalist idea … the oligarchs have won and are exporting authoritarianism to the globe. Most or the majority of people everywhere just want to have a peaceful life whether they are in the US, Russian, China or anywhere on the globe … it’s oligarchs and wealthy morons that think they can manipulate everyone, everywhere all the time and allow them to become rulers of the universe.

      • skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de
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        15 hours ago

        i’ll have you know that social contract that formed in russia after 90s looks just like that: citizens fuck off from politics in return for some prosperity. every time when russian state expected that that won’t last due to things like 2008 crisis or covid or what have you, they started a war as a distraction and to rally around the flag some nationalists. now they’re on 4th attempt, this one was due to post-covid recession. difference is, this time they were high on their own supply of propaganda and planned accordingly. they also can’t back down because they see it as a weakness, and that would mean a coup

    • cm0002@lemmy.world
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      17 hours ago

      Nahhhh according to the tankies of .ml, Russia is just trying to export humanity-saving peace, love and socialism but has just been continuously beaten down by the big bad US :(