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https://twitter.com/ApostateProphet/status/1903083122897420607Westerners broadly misunderstand how the collapse of the USSR was experienced in places like Russia and Ukraine. The implosion of the Soviet economy was not a pleasant experience in any way, and the country did not make a clean transition, either politically or economically.
https://twitter.com/landsknechtpike/status/1894164955328331890Ah, screw it. Berserker thread starts here.
https://twitter.com/IImpartialTruth/status/1823868412344590556The Soviet regime did perpetrate horrible crimes against the Orthodox church in Russia, but they did this because the church was a pillar of the parochial peasant civilization which they wanted to shatter, not because Stalin had a secret blood vendetta against Christians. Sorry.
https://twitter.com/KanekoaTheGreat/status/1717072618053107761The problem is that if someone thinks you're bluffing and they call you on it, the entire system of deterrence falls apart unless you respond. That's been the basis of America's limited ("proportional") actions in the Middle East over the years.