r/worldnews • u/DownWithAssad • 3d ago
Russia sentences 15-year-old schoolboy to 5 years for criticizing Putin regime and war against Ukraine Russia/Ukraine
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u/Ghost9001 3d ago
Little weak man scared of a 15 year old boy.
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u/Low_Narwhal_1346 3d ago
Tyrants are scared of everything and everyone.
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u/MyNameIsDaveToo 3d ago
For good reason
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u/Good-Ad-6806 3d ago
Why don't the Russian just eat Putin. Are they stupid?
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u/SirKorgor 3d ago
For the same reason Americans don’t eat their oligarchs. We can’t get close enough to them.
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u/JakToTheReddit 3d ago
I'll eat them if yall will. The Dutch had it right.
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u/Ok_Condition5837 3d ago
I'm not sure if I'll partake tbh. But I'm more than willing to cook them for you!
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u/303Pickles 3d ago
I’ll bring the seasoning 😁 and vodka to marinate with!
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u/Call_Me_Skyy 3d ago
As much as I have against Russian society (and I will gladly admit that bias since my family survived Holodomor), they are not stupid. They are controlled. Russian History is a history of strongman types holding power whether inherited or taken. Russia is not an easy place to live and part of the control is keeping the population consumed with surviving. There is ALOT more to it obviously, but those are the two big reasons I would say keep men like Putin in power there.
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u/anon9anon99 2d ago
Yea...and excessive mental health issues and alcoholism help keep the would be fighting man down
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u/Call_Me_Skyy 2d ago
This is a whole tragedy in itself. Understandable post '45, but insane how bad it continued to be. Of course a societal rejection of "weakness" helps that poison along.
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u/LewisLightning 2d ago
Truer words have never been spoken. This actually reminds me of Putin's buddy in Syria who arrested, tortured and killed child protesters of his regime.
Birds of a feather it seems.
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u/Sylvers 2d ago
“Have you any idea how much tyrants fear the people they oppress? All of them realize that, one day, amongst their many victims, there is sure to be one who rises against them and strikes back!”
I like this quote.
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u/Stlr_Mn 3d ago
Russians have to realize the world looks at them as weak for something like this. So pathetically weak.
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u/shelter_king35 3d ago
They don’t care. It’s was stops a revolution. That’s all they’re trying to do
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u/Megalocerus 3d ago
The Vietnam War protests drew on children. The girl pictured wailing over the body of a person shot at Kent State was 14; the picture helped move people across the nation. Most of the protesters were somewhat older, but they were often draft age. Antiwar protests are powerful and tend to spread.
Russian losses in WWI and firings on civilians had a lot to do with the rise of the Bolsheviks. Putin knows he can lose to a popular anti-war movement.
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u/Luke90210 2d ago
The Ferguson Police Department of Missouri openly pointed their weapons in broad daylight with supervisors present at unarmed and peaceful protestors demonstrating against the police killing of an unarmed African-American teen. What got more attention was the fact active American servicemen in Afghanistan said they would have been court-martialed if they did the same thing over there. Military rules are soldiers are not supposed to point their weapons at anyone unless they are going to shoot.
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u/RailRuler 2d ago
Cite needed -- IIRC polls after Kent State showed that most of the population of the US thought the Kent State students deserved it.
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u/noirdesire 3d ago
1) They are fed propaganda that it's stolen territory and are fighting for Russian nationals.
2) They are a hypermasculine culture that absolutely doesn't care they are looked as a weak when in their mind they aren't.
3) They also are fed news videos of all our liberal transsexual protests and pride days and military members wearing women's clothing. So they see the west becoming gay.
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u/archiminos 2d ago
Are you talking about Russia or MAGA?
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u/MTFBinyou 2d ago
Por que no los dos?
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u/OfficeRelative2008 2d ago
“Were you just speaking Mexican?! This is America!”
-су́ка блядь
“Thank you! Much better.”
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u/somirion 2d ago
Also having anal sex with a man is not gay if its a rape, remember (or 90% of russian army would be gay because they roped or were roped)
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u/eat_dick_reddit 2d ago
They also are fed news videos of all our liberal transsexual protests and pride days and military members wearing women's clothing. So they see the west becoming gay.
And then they go into the Russian army to be raped by other men.
What a fucked up country.
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u/CarnegieFormula 3d ago
This is to prevent others from following suit by making an example
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u/I-RonButterfly 3d ago
...Because he is weak.
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u/canonlynn 3d ago
Exactly, everyone knows that kids will say stupid shit that they will have to learn not say, when a dictator goes for the kids it must send a cruel message even for the true supporters.
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u/ArenjiTheLootGod 3d ago
Except that the kid wasn't saying stupid shit, he was speaking the truth and that's what has got the Russian government scared. Even if cruelty was the point, handling it this way is spectacularly dumb because now far more people are going to hear the kid's message than if they had just left him alone. I mean, we're hearing about it and it's rare to hear anything coming out of Russia these days that isn't state propaganda or hourly threats of dropping nukes.
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u/Livid_Camel_7415 3d ago
handling it this way is spectacularly dumb because now far more people are going to hear the kid's message than if they had just left him alone.
This is a very Western take. You keep hoping for a trigger, this is not how Russia works. If anything, this signals for the rest of the people that it's time to be extra quiet, because they are putting children in prison now.
You approach this as someone who takes responsibility for society, because you live in a democracy and you feel that you have a dog in the race.
Russians have no such experience, for them, government is like the weather. You just adapt. Whatever happens, happens anyway.
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u/Fogmoose 2d ago
What a sad way to live life. And what many in the US on the right would probably like to see their country become.
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u/canonlynn 3d ago
My point was that normal people know not to judge kids for what they say because they have years of learning ahead of them. I also agree it is very stupid for the government precisely for the message it sends to its supporters, that humans who are not even fully developed can be jailed for criticism.
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u/fiduciary420 3d ago
Just like donald trump. Who will totally behave this way if enough uneducated, bad people vote for him this year.
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u/nowtayneicangetinto 3d ago
Yes, he wants other children who scare him to not speak up. This, he's afraid of little boys and girls because he's a massive massive massive pussy
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u/KevinsOnTilt 3d ago
Total obedience or you lose your freedom.
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u/SignifigantZebra 3d ago
you dont have freedom in russia.
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u/Neat-Opportunity1824 3d ago
Russia is a large gas station between Europe and China, owned by mafia.
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u/Ilovekittens345 3d ago
Sounds amazing! I am voting for his employee Trump! There is nothing more American then bending the knee to Russia! Make America Vassal Again! /s
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u/eat_dick_reddit 2d ago
I just can't understand people in the West looking at Russia and thinking "wow, we need to copy that in our country".
It's a mafia run shithole that would have been gone by now if it didn't have nukes ... there is absolutely nothing positive about Russia at all. Nothing.
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u/descendency 3d ago
Imagine basically executing a 15 year old because he criticized you and your government…
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u/Front_Explanation_79 3d ago
Imagine being so fragile you can't tolerate the words of a 15 year old. Russian snowflakes.
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u/I-RonButterfly 3d ago
Vlad the Weak is a Potemkin leader. Strong facade, but really fragile and scared.
You'd almost feel sorry for the little guy if he hadn't consigned a generation of Russian and Ukrainian young men and women to their deaths to pretend to feel strong.
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u/GoodLeftUndone 3d ago
When a 15 year old is braver than an entire nation’s military and its leaders
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u/-Alpharius- 3d ago
Well, a lot of Russian military leaders have fallen off buildings recently or their planes have crashed
It's the Russian way
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u/Jon_Demigod 3d ago
I'd probably say naive and didn't think he'd get into trouble because he's not aware of the evil of the world yet being only 15.
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u/guiltyblow 3d ago
Growing up in Russia I am sure he got to know the evil of the world faster than many in the world
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u/Jarringly 3d ago
Props to little man for having the stones to vocalize
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u/Aadarm 3d ago
Too bad he probably won't live long enough to ever leave prison. Most vocal detractors to Putin and his regime just disappear, and that's not counting the ones who are obviously assassinated.
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u/Commandant23 2d ago
I'd be less worried about him being killed by the FSB and more worried about him simply not surviving Russia's torturous prison system.
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u/Wrest216 2d ago
No no, they dont have the American Disabilities Act in Russia, so lots of things are unsafe. Like...people fall off buildings a lot, people are run over by trains in cars while tied up in a back seat, people are always accidentally injecting themselves with rare, expensive, and deadly radioactive isotopes.... (/s)
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u/DragonflyMon83 3d ago
Russia suck as fuck.
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u/Cyanide_Cheesecake 3d ago
And the sick fucks on our side of the world idolizes Putin and his fascist thugs
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u/why_does 3d ago
he just gotta say "no income tax" and plenty of new soldiers migrate
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u/fiduciary420 3d ago
Or make weak, ineffectual young men feel like they’re stronger than someone else, and they’ll fall to their knees and hate whoever you instruct them to hate.
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u/DankNerd97 3d ago
Can we start referring to russia as a dictatorship and stop referring to putin (I won't capitalizing these) as a president, but rather a dictator?
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u/El_Lanf 3d ago
President is just the default title for most republics, it doesn't have to infer any level of suffrage. He might decry it, but I think putin might quite enjoy the recognition of his paramount power and domination over Russia by being labeled dictator whilst also crying that he's a victim of the west's latest malign ambitions and smears.
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u/TheGreenInYourBlunt 3d ago
They're really sweating over there, aren't they? Imprisoning a 15 year old over their political opinion?
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u/MakaniKaiKai 2d ago
They totally validated his concerns too. If he had any doubts, being thrown in jail for speaking up will surely wipe those doubts away.
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u/bud_little6128 3d ago
This is the "free" country Nazis and tankies love.
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u/flonky_tymes 3d ago
Trump: "Completely perfect punishment!"
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u/FloppieTheBanjoClown 3d ago
That was Trump 2020. Trump 2024: "And the Russians, they had to put a 15 year old boy in jail because he talked bad about Putin. That's what kids are like in school these days. You go in a school and you can't go fifteen yards without a seeing a kid. And these kids, they have books. And books can be dangerous. You drop them from a high place, they fall down and BOOM someone gets a concussion. And that's why we need God back in schools."
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u/Neat-Opportunity1824 3d ago
Yeah and 101 reason why they don't wanna go there actually.
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u/Neoliberal_Boogeyman 3d ago
Chomsky: look, I just like a good old fashioned genocide, okay?
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u/TeddyBridgecollapse 3d ago
Everyone's daily reminder that that dickweed is a celebrated genocide denier and apologist for brutal regimes, as long as they're nominally socialist.
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u/TheKanten 3d ago
The irony being that Putin insists he's "da-nazifying" the world.
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u/echoron 3d ago
Well, one by one Russian people wont be able to do something against the regime, only huge mass protests could make a difference. But there is a catch, Putin wont just peacefully looking out from the window, he will use brutal force to suppress them, while talking about doing the right thing...Its not looking good.
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u/Keisari_P 3d ago
There is no point to protest against dictator. Only thing that would help is following the path Romanians did with their dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu He went from having absolute power to being excecuted in four days.
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u/TheKanten 3d ago
And if Ceaușescu permanently hid in a mountain bunker behind a mile-long table he would have kept his head.
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u/Different-Estate747 3d ago
mountain bunker behind a mile-long table
Got a chuckle outta me
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u/OkExtension9526 3d ago
True, but the more we see these young heroes go to jail, the more people hate putin's regime. At least I wanna believe it.
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u/apusloggy 3d ago
Yeah that’s true, maybe it will reach a tipping point.. somehow… sad how controlled they are.
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u/macross1984 3d ago
Russia may deny Putin is dictator but when country transition to autocracy/dictatorship, the first thing to go is anything you say bad about leader and country and many countries aside from Russia take dim view of criticism.
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u/_Speer 3d ago
Putin denies he is a dictator. A lot of Russians know and acknowledge he is. But the fate of speaking out is just not worth losing their livelihoods. Putin made sure the police haven't gone to the front line in Moscow and St Petersburg so they crack down hard and fast on any hint of people speaking up.
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u/Serpentor_Imperator 3d ago
Russia is bandit state. Wish it would collapse and rise with better leaders and politicians.
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u/Megalocerus 2d ago
Not how it usually works. In fact, Putin rose out of the collapse of the post-USSR state.
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u/iamkam- 3d ago
MAGA Morons who say they would vote for Putin over Biden need to see this kind of stuff
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u/FSMFan_2pt0 3d ago
Jailing 'mouthy libs', even kids, is a selling point for MAGA.
And they've been voting for Putin over Biden for 8 years now, via the Trump proxy.
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u/Bacchanalia- 3d ago
They know.
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u/_zenith 3d ago
This is, unironically, the future they yearn for.
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u/IllSearch5 3d ago
So they think. Because, as with many things, they assume they can piss in the wind and they won't get hit with splash back.
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u/bsEEmsCE 2d ago
their own son has to get jailed then they see the problem, maybe try to get the others to see, and they proceed to call him a paid actor false flag and send death threats
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u/MelpomeneAndCalliope 3d ago
God bless this brave boy.
Putin is a monster.
Slava Ukraini. Fascists can eat shit.
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u/Employ-Personal 3d ago
There are people in all of the western democracies who’d be perfectly happy to rule like this if given the opportunity. We all know who they are and we should ensure they never (and in some cases never again) get close to power.
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u/SeniorMiddleJunior 2d ago
I hope we dodge the bullet this time. But even if we do, I guarantee it won't last. The GOP will regroup, rebrand, and in either 4 or 8 years I'm afraid they'll be back.
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u/Sufficient_Plate_595 3d ago
Grateful to be an American. Drives me nuts when people here say we no longer have free speech cuz their dumb tweet gets deleted. Poor kid
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u/DelayNoMorexxx 3d ago
These mega moron in the interview said they will rather pick Putin over Biden. Kick these ppl to Russia and see if they are gonna say the same.
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u/SkYeBlu699 3d ago
Like those canadians who left only to cry that nobody speaks english. :(
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u/Serethekitty 3d ago
They always say it but even those with the means to do so never seem to move to Russia...
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u/samoyed_white 3d ago
Thinking back to Gulag Archipelago I think he would’ve got the same under Stalin.
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u/--lll-era-lll-- 3d ago edited 3d ago
Putin and his merry band of sociopathic naziclown's, are signing their death own warrants with bullshit like this..
People are rising up all over The crumbling Federation and jailing children isn't going to help him or change a dam thing.
Slava Ukraine Vlad, you are deadman walking
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u/slash312 3d ago
Thank god that Russians military is not powerful, otherwise we would see parallels to 1939.
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u/ClownMorty 3d ago
It's things like this that start to make the people mad. One of these will be a tipping point.
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u/Aggravating_Call910 3d ago
When he gets out, he can go right into the army! As Yacov Smirnoff used to say: “What a country!”
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u/thtanner 3d ago
People like this often find themselves constricted into military service as part of their sentence, so he'll likely be heading over there sooner than later sadly.
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u/katara144 3d ago
MAGA folks should take note, this is what will happen under Project 2025/Trump President, if he is elected.
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u/erock84titan 3d ago
This young Russian boy has what most Russian men lack...balls
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u/NorthNorthSalt 3d ago
No doubt one of the most pathetic governments in the world. My thoughts with this young hero
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u/Tiny_Independent2552 2d ago
Just remember, Trump wants to jail his political opponents as well. Totally unhinged.
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u/PezRystar 3d ago
Look ya'll, I don't know how to expertly navigate the online world like a lot of people do. But I think this is one of those cases where influencers and those that know how to manipulate public opinion need to get to work. We need to make noise about this. There needs to outcry. Those that are politically knowledgeable, find a politician willing to make a scene about this, and start a PAC on this subject that supports them. This seems like an easy public response for someone that knows how to navigate those waters.
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u/canadiangirl_eh 3d ago
This is exactly what the GOP will begin to do if they gain the white house again. Be ready for it. They all idolize Putin and other fascists. Trump is just the mouth piece for the entire f*cking party.
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u/MrBobSacamano 3d ago
Say what you will about the US (and most other western countries), but we can tell our leaders to suck farts out of our asses with a straw, with absolute impunity. It’s pretty great.
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u/Anxious_Plum_5818 2d ago
Tell me again Russia isn't some oppressive dystopian hellhole.
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u/Soft-Measurement-123 2d ago
My American uncle married a Russian woman from Volgograd in the 90s. Living mostly in Russia has greatly influenced him, and now he's a hardcore supporter of Putin. During his recent visit to the US, when Trump suggested letting Putin 'do whatever the hell he wants to NATO' on the evening news, I expressed concern about the risk of a nuclear world war. In response, my uncle shook his head and said, 'Isn't that how the Allies destroyed the Nazis?"
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u/tmzspn 2d ago
The Trump regime has already threatened to do the same if elected.
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u/meteorprime 3d ago
What are you even fighting for at that point?
Your children jailed for speech…