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Britain is Losing its Free Speech, and America Could be Next
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Well, UK partially aside, your country is the root cause of all the shit happening here. Specifically Putin el Puto.
Well, not so much "cause" as pouring gasoline on what was a light smolder.
Blaming Russia for the inadequacies of much more powerful nations like the US is pretty ignorant, imo.
Of course those countries had issues - including the USA.
But it's Russia that interfered enough to put the far right in those countries in power. Like I said, they poured gasoline on what was already a fire
You're shifting way too much blame on Russia. Our democracies are failing by themselves, because of complacent politicians who care more about their career and being elected than doing good for their countries. Politicians who learned they don't have to apply their promises and everything will turn out fine. Voters got pissed and fell for far right lies and propaganda.
It turned into a roaring fire by itself. Putin just made sure the fire doors don't shut.
This is absolutely insane. Russia is NOT the root cause of anything bad happening in the United States. Pull your head out of your ass.
I'm in Finland. I'm also referencing the EU member countries, not just the USA. A lot of the issues here are literally due to Russia.
Edit: Trump and Republican ties to Russia are definitely also a thing.
Russia only helped spread the cancers that were already here
Basically yeah. Spread and grow.
But metastasized cancer is much harder to get rid of, and that's what Russia has ensured on happening.
Ah come on. It is still assholes here deciding to be assholes.
i wish people like you could take a moment to contemplate on the simple fact that russia is not to blame for every single problem that US and UK have internally. if there's a car crash in US, people are gonna blame russia for it. if the vegetables go mold, people are gonna blame russia for it. it's always somebody else's fault. how about you take some self-responsibility?
And I wish people like you remembered that countries that don't speak English existed, because I'm in Finland not USA.