(12-26-2022, 01:11 PM)americus 2.0 Wrote: This came up in my youtube and was going to ignore it but decided to watch it since it's a "short". I don't know when Trump talked about this but I assume it's when he was still in office and somewhere around the time Zelensky had a sit down with him. Interesting. 

I legit don't know much about geopolitics and such but over the last 10 months I have heard ad nauseam how corrupt the Ukraine government is and I guess it's hard for me to square that with Putin's invasion and other things. This can turn into a long discussion in another thread but I just wanted to share this here.

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It shouldn't be hard to square. Zelensky is corrupt, and he's a puppet of the US ruling class. Putin stands against that ruling class, but he also has a vision of Russia that's a major world player. He can't do that without certain geographic advantages. He's expansionist and dangerous, but so is the ruling class of the West (from other countries' perspectives). Two things can be true at once. Zelensky is a tool. Putin is dangerous.

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