anachronist
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George Beebe is a former chief of CIA’s Russia analysis who served on Vice President Cheney’s staff from 2002-2004.
Why do these supposedly left hexbear/ml guys keep posting articles written by wingers?
Ok I get it now. You guys are living (or LARPing in) a fantasy world where the Soviet Union still exists and Russia isn't a right-wing revanchist kleptocratic dictatorship.
There’s nothing up there but lakes, mud, and mosquitos
That's a rude way to describe Saint Petersburg.
Guess my brain just isn't giant enough to conceive of a world where invading someone is a defensive act.
I'll never be as brilliant or wise as you or George Bush.
Yeah and that Malaysian airliner shot itself down because there were no Russians in Donbass, just some tourists!
At what point did this become Russia’s aggression?
When they invaded?
Yeah a thing the CIA did in 1953 definitely explains modern Ukrainian politics. Clearly they planted sleepers that had children who had children (real potent Nazi sperm) that were activated 60 years later to phony up the Euromaden uprising.
Remember that time Khrushchev ordered the bay of pigs invasion?
Usually if forced to decide who started a war one would go with the side that started in with the shooting.
Worse, the article was written by a Koch shill: https://www.macalester.edu/news/2022/04/professor-andrew-latham-receives-grant-koch-foundation-chinas-grand-strategy-a-history/
More like you want to read your opinion echoed back to you and you really don't care if it's in the words of a CIA/Cheney ghoul or Charles Koch shill.