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by mtrimpe 4468 days ago
Except that the US isn't in a steep decline. The US doesn't start invasions and pretends it's someone else's military. The US doesn't cancel leases for pro-Snowden news outlets. The US doesn't send protesters against election-fraud away for 5 years. The US doesn't introduce laws making it illegal to support gays in public. The US doesn't forcefully remove protesters against a potential war at first sight; even if they're just raising white protest flags.

The dynamics might be similar, if not universal, but the order of magnitude is truly different.
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pkinsky 4468 days ago
>The US doesn't start invasions and pretends it's someone else's military.

Drone strikes come to mind. Didn't the US claim that bombings in Yemen where the work of the local government?

That said, the order of magnitude is indeed different.

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smsm42 4468 days ago
US didn't occupy Yemen and claim it's "local self-defense forces" and then rushed through a fake referendum to make Yemen part of the US, last time I checked. So I'm not sure what is here to compare. Each major country has intelligence and clandestine operations which are not publicly acknowledged, but it's different between cloak-and-dagger stuff and occupying a part of neighboring country and trying to present it as if they did it to themselves.
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myth_drannon 4468 days ago
Actually all you described US does it as well. It's just Russian elites are less sophisticated and are more brutish. The process you see in Russia now, was done many years ago in US. For example why would you cancel leases of news outlets if you have complete and absolute control on MSM? Behind all that gold and glitter is the same nastiness and hate for the common man.
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