• DankZedong @lemmygrad.mlOP
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      8 months ago

      The only thing the Western media portrayed him as was as an opponent of Putin. His nationalist tendencies were unknown to Western libs.

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          Never fails to take me out when I hear know-nothing burgers talking about “if there were an election he’d have beat putler 2:1” and I’m just fighting the urge to start smirking like “oh, so the same margins that clinton was supposed to beat trump by right?”

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            8 months ago

            Wonders of fake news. I had to explain to my gf today that he was in fact not the only opposition to Putin.

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        8 months ago

        Racist US backed stooge who got dooped into ending up in a Russian prison lol. IIRC he was advised to return to Russia to be sone kinda martyr by his handlers (he had no real mass appeal in Russia and he was being propped up as the 2nd runner up in power lol)