By the way, some Russians (if not most of them) are also voted for Trump. They escaped fascist dictatorship only to make a fascist dictatorship “at home” (in the US).

I think, people from (toxic) collectivistic cultures are mostly uneducated and they don’t realise what trauma/abuse did to them when they lived in their authoritarian (or democratic but poor and corrupt af) home country. Add do this a propaganda that is aimed, among other things, at Russians themselves abroad, that people among their acquaintances/social networks often spread it as word of mouth. They are easily deceived. And as the result, they continue to vote for such bastards who are capable of primitively manipulating people, even in democratic elections.

I don’t justify them, but I would not blame voters (although people should be held personally responsible for their actions and learn to think for themselves). In working democracy with respected rule of law though, there would be a way to remove those like Trump from office almost immediately or check the votes for possible manipulation. Look, how they did it in Romania recently:

1. “Romanian presidential elections cancelled by constitutional court” - https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/news/romanian-presidential-elections-canceled-by-constitutional-court/
2. “EU investigates TikTok over alleged Russian meddling in Romanian vote” - https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm2v13nz202o

If Trump became president and the country immediately collapsed, then the question arises whether checks and balances were fair before.

Some other articles:

1. “How TikTok Almost Won the Presidency for Romania’s Far-Right Candidate” - https://vsquare.org/romania-tiktok-campaign-presidential-election-far-right-candidate-russia/
2. “TikTok still approving election disinformation ads in Ireland” - https://www.globalwitness.org/en/campaigns/digital-threats/tiktok-still-approving-election-disinformation-ads-ireland/

By the way, back then, in 1996, there were fair elections in Russia (at least, that’s what they were called), but in the end, Yeltsin began to look for a “successor” (apparently, at the behest of a narrow circle of his “family”, the oligarchs), which was unexpected for everyone, in order to protect himself from criminal prosecution, in case the new president wanted to put him in jail.

Then, as eyewitnesses say, these people found Putin, instructed him to carry out to collect all the assets of the Soviet Union around the world, and after that was done, a meeting was held in the person of 5 oligarchs, who at the end patted him on the shoulder and said “you’re a good enough guy for us”.

Putin kept his word, gave Yeltsin and his family immunity.

I personally think that Yeltsin and Putin were essentially the same people (Putin simply continued Yeltsin’s work of plundering the country), it’s just that Yeltsin was used by the KGB to transfer power, and Putin had already “secured” this position for himself.

That Yeltsin then may have had something to do with organized crime, that Putin (as well as the Russian so-called “special services”, which benefit from them)

Nevermind. When Putin became a president in 1999, there were also apartment bombings in Moscow and other cities. There was a version that it was not the terrorists who did it, but the secret services, in order to increase Putin’s rating, who said “to defeat the terrorists” (and that this was the reason for the start of the Second Chechen War).

I would not be surprised if Trump will use this catastrophe for PR.

By the way, you’re right, they are all gangsters: FSB, SVR, GRU, etc.

I don’t think it’s even corporate now. There are oligopolies/monopolies in each sector already

It’s Tory’s newspaper, right?

It was intentional

You’re OK? Why do you answer on deleted comment? And I don’t see the point to downvoting already deleted comment too.

By the way, Trump wonders if Americans will let him treat them like this and continues to do “his business”

“Boris Johnson with his Russian connections and Brexit is innocent, if you think he is…”

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It’s like in Russia. Every politician in State Duma have impunity. It’s funny because if you k*ll some criminals from there, they would be just dead and then so-called impunity will not help them

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They want to turn western countries also into narcissistic shitholes. It seems like billionaires have power already, not congress

Fuck, they want to ban amphetamine-based prescription meds like in shitty authoritarian countries.

P.S. There were more approved drugs in US than in any other country, including Adderall. Also, there are many drugs for multiple sclerosis treatment and they are actively developed in US to be even better. It saves the whole world, I mean, it improves people’s lives significantly (however, these medicines are very expensive).

P.S. #2 A few years ago there was Wellbutrin (depression, ADHD, narcolepsy treatment. Innovative new drug) in Russia, and it was registered there officially by pharmacy company GfK, it’s manufacturer. Then they shut down production and it stopped being supplied to pharmacies. Then relatives of people who had narcolepsy, lived at that moment in Europe and they offered to bring this drug from Europe to those people in Russia. Then the drug was confiscated at customs and a case was opened against these people, allegedly Wellbutrin contains “drug derivatives”, although this is NOTHING written about Wellbutrin, and there are no substances in the composition that could indicate this, there are no such substances officially, even the manufacturer doesn’t mention it. It is clear that there is no justice in that country, and that these people could simply be put behind bars. Well, they “scared” people once again and soon released them. It’s was just recently. Such biased cases about “narcotic substances” are common here.

And I assume, US is turning into Russia/China 2.0

But it’s never a way to normalize that.

I’m getting tired of this ‘whataboutism’.

It’s the same ‘third world’ logic: “look, there is also shitty countries around us in the world. So it’s ok if our country and we, like the people, are the same: with bad quality of education, without freedom, bad quality of life, living in fascist criminal state, illegally annexing territories, killing civilians, not respecting each other’s boundaries (because we are “collectivists” and not individualists, who care about themselves. It’s always ok to die for our dictator-criminal), we steal each other’s things, etc. And it’s definitely ok to change nothing. And it’s definitely ok to act like barbarians and then not to take personal responsibility for your own actions.”

It’s YOUR country and we are talking about YOUR country and no one else. Don’t look at others. Do not normalize that.