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Athena's avatar

Make no mistake. The USA is governed by the ruling elite. The ruling elite goes after dissenting voices with never-ending investigations and unlawful imprisonment. You are correct in recognizing that “all will return to the same as it was”.

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Howie Swerdloff's avatar

Arseniy is correct that Putin's project, while dressed up in nationalistic language and notions of a mythical Russian past, has little to do with the interests of either the Russian people or the Russian state. Of course there is rivalry between the imperialists, but the article clearly shows that NATO expansion is not the root cause of Russian aggression against Ukraine. It is not defensive. To the contrary, Arseniy shows that it stems from the internal logic of liberalism. To the extent that the Chicago market liberals encouraged the likes of Yeltsin, the West are indeed to blame. (And to be sure, the oligarchs' disdain for the masses, their racism and homophobia, are part and parcel of the regressive, antidemocratic, ideological turn of US and European elites.)

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