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To be America's enemy is dangerous, but to be its ally is fatal (lemmy.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

No, it started a lot longer ago than that

You can listen to Putin himself and he goes back pretty far in history.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I could, but I think it's more important to look at what's actually truly relevant. NATO/Russian relations don't go nearly that far back.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Putin is the Czar. What's on his matters most. Everything else is secondary or incidental.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Regardless of what Putin personally wants, Russia acts in the interests of its material conditions. Putin is a Nationalist, so his interests in maintaining a buffer from NATO generally align with the Russian public.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

acts in the interests of its material conditions

It's a foundational mistake of Marxists to reduce everything to material conditions. You will never understand the world, if that's your only frame of reference.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

I don't reduce everything to material conditions, but I also don't believe in "Great Man Theory" either.