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[-] surph_ninja@lemmy.world 35 points 22 hours ago

Who would’ve thought the government that installed a far right government in a coup wouldn’t have the best intentions?!

[-] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 16 points 22 hours ago

See, I can't tell if you're talking about America, Russia, or Ukraine.

[-] surph_ninja@lemmy.world 19 points 22 hours ago

I get what you’re saying, but to clarify I was speaking of the 2014 Maidan Coup where the US installed a far-right puppet government.

[-] rational_lib@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago

And your evidence for the US installing this government is what exactly?

Let me say this as a westerner - if someone all of a sudden tried to put me in a Putinist puppet state, shit would burn. To the ground.

[-] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 5 points 9 hours ago

Im assuming you aren't American, then 👀

[-] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 13 points 21 hours ago

Sure, and Russia had their right-wing coup in 1991, and America is currently doing a self-coup.

[-] aeshna_cyanea@lemm.ee 6 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

People get these confused a lot, but russia has 2 coups in the 90s-

1991 was a failed anti-reformist "left wing" coup that deposed Gorbachev and ended with the fall of the USSR and Yeltsin in power.

1993 was a successful right wing self-coup that allowed Yeltsin to fully consolidate power away from the Russian parliament and towards the presidency. More hamfisted and violent, but in essence similar to what is happening in the US right now

[-] surph_ninja@lemmy.world 7 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

The US was taken over in a coup when Kennedy was assassinated. We’ve been ruled by the CIA & Mossad ever since.

[-] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 11 points 20 hours ago

Eh, while they're part of maintaining the status quo, we're ruled by capital, and that was true before Kennedy too.

[-] surph_ninja@lemmy.world 7 points 16 hours ago

And the CIA has always been an attack dog of the capitalists. That’s its whole mission.

[-] eluvinar@szmer.info 1 points 14 hours ago

Self-coup would suggest someone is in control and actually wants what's happening. That'd be nice.

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