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    6 months ago

    and now the USA looks like it wants to join in on that “fun”.

    The US joined that club before the ink on the constitution had dried. It has never left.

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        6 months ago

        Not really… the white middle class in the US is coming down from their cozy New Deal high and realizing all the “soft power” was literally just empty propaganda. There is a good reason why the US has inspired some of the most evil events of the modern era - Putin cannot hold a candle to that.