• HobbitFoot
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      1 year ago

      You’re getting downvoted, but the Wagner Group has a stake in this coup being successful and the group has ties to the Russian government.

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        1 year ago

        Yeah I dunno why people find that so hard to believe. They have a clear interest in propping up this coup.

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          1 year ago

          There is a difference between a clear interest and moral reason. There is a clear interest.

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            1 year ago

            I realize now the lemmygrad folks are here so that prob explains the downvotes

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              1 year ago

              It is really hard to sell a liberation foreign policy when the group doing so is getting paid by strip mining the land in compensation for their services. Well, unless West is bad and always bad, but it is really hard to sell moral superiority by being mercenaries.