• Pennomi@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Yup! Remember Romney saying that Russia was our geopolitical enemy and Obama being the one who called that ridiculous? Ever since then the Republicans have had an absurd love affair with Putin.

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      3 months ago

      To be fair, there was an honest gambit there with Our Pal Russia, the same one that was tried with China. It didn’t work but it seemed like a fair thing to try, especially considering the economic constraints of the alternative.

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        3 months ago

        Oh yeah, at the time Obama was right to try to repair relations with Russia. They’ve simply grown worse as they figured out how to poke at the world via information warfare.