The Russian dictator has bent the world, including the United States, to his vision.

The Russian dictator has bent the world, including the United States, to his vision.

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  • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I’m not even sure if brainwashed is the right term since it’s clearly a deep anti-intellectualism coupled with deep resentment of established society. They have been voting for this kind of thing in the USA long before Putin got his disinformation machine involved.

    You kind of need a brain to have washed and “you’ve got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know… morons.”

      • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        7·
        2 days ago

        That’s a take that ignores the history of the Soviet Union, it’s collapse in 1991, and Russia’s embrace of capitalism and oligarchy after that. Putin himself didn’t even come into direct power until 1999.