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SWBTATTReg

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3. Moscow is a toothless bear, being defanged not by outside interests, but by its own internal 1%ers, who used Putin's
Wed Jan 7, 2026, 03:38 PM
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helplessness or inability to do anything concrete to literally steal everything but the kitchen sink in Russia. I'm surprised that the Russians haven't lost any nukes (that we know of), being that they could probably sell them for $billions to rogue nations (N. Korea, Iran, others possibly). This evidence points to the fact that in fact, everything of value has been stolen or is gone.

It's a shame...I do watch the occasional YouTube videos of some of the Russian people, in their 'normal' everyday lives, and these videos are very neat and interesting, a far cry from the 'evil Russians etc. rhetoric we see all of the time. I hope, along w/ us here in the US, that our terrible leaders are someday gone, and that leaders that truly are concerned about citizen's welfare and health, etc. are installed instead. Instead, there seems to still be a climate of fear and so forth, to enable the insanely bloated budgets of the defense dept, the arms manufacturers, etc.

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