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How do you make someone understand that being drafted by force and ordered to invade another country is not a good thing? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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

That's only because Russia has already privatized and sold off all of its national assets to oligarchs after the fall of the USSR.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

that doesn't make sense in the context of the post you replied to

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The reason the US has a special hate-on for Putin is precisely because he kicked the Western shock therapists out of the country. He stanched the tide of privatization.