• Catradora_Stalinism [she/her, comrade/them]
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      4010 months ago

      I love how they’ve been peddling the “warm water port” thing since the cold war. Soviets were somehow always expanding in order to get that holy land of a “warm water port” and if they got it they would take over the world.

      Now it turn out that the port was in ukraine the whole time! Dummy Soviets, you should have looked in your own country!

        • ProxyTheAwesome [comrade/them]
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          10 months ago

          It’s the “the jews/christians and muslims have been fighting since time immemorial in Israel” lazy explanation to all conflict in a region customized for Russia (which is a frozen hellscape filled with gulags desperately thirsting for some warm water in the liberal mind).

          • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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            1610 months ago

            I more meant in terms of Russia’s access to fresh water ports. They’re really in the catbird seat as the planet incinerates itself.

              • kristina [she/her]
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                10 months ago

                Except for the random explosions from methane pockets under the permafrost. Saw an interview of some siberians and they were like “oh yeah we hear massive explosions all the time from climate change, hope I’m not walking somewhere when one happens”. Said they hear one every week

                I also recall one study suggesting that the ‘new’ soil in Russia will not be arable and would need imported fertilizers to make any use of it.

      • nat_turner_overdrive [he/him]
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        4310 months ago

        Hasn’t his importance in Russia been exaggerated by western media? My understanding is he’s a relatively fringe figure without much influence.

        • GaveUp [she/her]
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          3210 months ago

          Absolutely, Western media has to shine spotlights and magnify nut cases like Dugin because the Russian government is pretty competent and generally correct in their statements when it comes to geopolitics

          • kristina [she/her]
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            1010 months ago

            for anyone screenshotting, the ‘when it comes to geopolitics’ is doing the heavy lifting here

            • ProxyTheAwesome [comrade/them]
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              1110 months ago

              Don’t have to like Putin to agree you need to listen when he speaks, as he delivers threats and warnings that he often is serious about and follows through with. His red lines were extremely explicit and clear, and were flagrantly crossed at many points - and he eventually pushed back as he warned he would. He is competent and makes rational moves, and he just iced the dude who tried to coup him 2 months to the day after he said he would.