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Russia's conservatives believe Ukraine harbors elite Nazis who are leading NATO's active attack on Russian sovereignty. It's not unlike American conservatives believing there's a caravan of Mexican migrants coming to rape their women and steal their jobs. If A.) Russia loses in Ukraine or B.) the lie falls apart, the people might wake up from their amygdaline stupor just long enough to realize how much Putin has stolen from the people and destroyed their economy and will string him up Mussolini-style.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 days ago

    a lot of the same arguments apply

    You're living in a basement somewhere dreaming about arguments in your head.

    people don't consider

    YOU aren't considering that people aren't only doing the shitty things you're fantasizing about.

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