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VonBonfire
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To put it in perspective, the United States has more people imprisoned than Russia does. Now how does it look in terms of "freedom"? Do you think the US has not eliminated it's enemies at home and abroad? They are just better at keeping it under wraps. "Suicide". "Accident". The US ran the School of the Americas, teaching torture and espionage (read: overthrowing and destabilizing govs and installing regimes) to central and south american people. Do you have any idea of the level of meddling we've done in the Americas alone? I get tired of rinos and dems painting us as some kind of angelic world savior, because the opposite is true. A bunch of meddling American nitwits running the show.That’s putting it lightly.
I find myself in the conservative camp much more so than liberal here but have strong feelings either way and cannot support Putin. He kills his rivals, or sends them off to Siberia to suffer before dying. I truly believe that if he conquers Ukraine, the baltics will be next until the old USSR is complete. And a true comparison? Gorbechov or Yeltsin and how they managed to maintain a “democracy” for their years in office. Maybe involved in payola (especially Yeltsin) but the population had the freedom to demonstrate or air their opposing views without the threat of arrest or imprisonment.
Putin wrested democracy away and is now a dictator with unlimited powers.