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ChicagoTeamster

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1. Let's hope it finally ends their over 110 years of aggression
Tue Oct 28, 2025, 09:28 PM
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Russia is basically a gas station with an Army and a mafia government. They went from whatever version of authoritarian quasi-communism mixed with cronyism to a mobster run country intent on using their spying, bribery, blackmail, and fake offers of partnerships to coopt western governments rather than defeat them militarily. All the while taking over developing countries trying to recover from the colonial manipulation of the European powers. They responded to the EU and the Obama administration trying to lure Ukraine away from Russian control and into EU integration by using social media and coopted western politicians and billionaires to put Trump in office and cause Brexit. They tried to get Marine Le Pen elected too. And of course they invaded Ukraine. If this upheaval can be used to forever put an end to their ability to wage aggressive war and to the power and control of the oligarchs the rest of the world can breathe easy and focus on dealing with the greed of the billionaire class in their own countries.

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