BRICS nations are a worry

@AthrillatheHunt And good old Iran too.

But I worry about Brazil, a foothold in South America.

And South Africa provides one too in that continent.

45% of the world population, and we have never heard of the organisation.

@AthrillatheHunt Actually both matters and Brics has surpassed the G7 in total GDP for 4 years straight. At this point it is a trend.

And funny enough thanks to those idiotic sanctions Russia is actually looking in better shape than it was 2 years ago.

Talk about throwing a tantrum and getting an own goal.

@Elessar Except nationalists like Navalny don't run Russia and Dugin is just a convenient boogie man for western propaganda.


By the exact same reasoning you could claim that the US sets policy based on someone who idolized a serial killer because a section of the GOP love Ayn Rand.

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow Navalny counted absolutely nothing and was in fact killed by the regime with virtually no consequences. With nationalists I mean the great majority of Russian nationalists, those who see Putin like the average maga hat sees Trump.

Foundation of Geopolitics is actually adopted as an official textbook by the Russian military (specifically the school for generals) whereas Ayn Rand's writings are merely a loose source of inspiration, and only for half the country. Project 2025 would be the closest equivalent to Foundations, in case of a republican takeover.

@Elessar And of course people believe that because the TV tells them to even though it makes zero logical sense and even US intelligence sources quietly released their finding that he was not killed by the government.

And no matter how many cliches you tack together Putin is not even remotely comparable to Trump. Navalvny was. Probably more far right.

That is why Amnesty International disavowed him.



And again. Citation needed. These are claims that cannot be substantiated outside US propaganda mills.



And again people can desperately turn Putin into a cliche to fit their bias but he is objectively nowhere close to Trump.


On most policies United Russia is to the left of the Democrats with social conservatism akin to 2000s era Bush Republicans.


But that doesn't work for war mongering and generating hate for an entire nation.

Sorry but I deal in facts not propaganda cliches akin to the John Birch Society bullshit.

@Elessar So now we are taking random anecdotes from people who don't live in the country and just treating their opinions as government policy?

That is a choice. Don't forget alot of Russians in Europe in particular are connected to oligarchs who left after they were no longer allowed to freely loot the country under the watchful eye of every western government's favourite president Yeltsin the permanently drunk.



Putin and Trump do not have thee same policies and Putin is not a cliche as much as you are desperate to pretend he is. In fact they are very very different. Navalny another ethno nationalist is by far the closer comparison. It is also why Navalny is hated at home by many. Having 27 million of your people killed by ethno nationalists does that to a country.

And your claims about the Russian government funneling billions to Trump is painfully obviously bullshit because literally his entire campaign would be in chains if there was any truth to that.

That is 2016 era Steele Dossier Russiagate bullshit. Democrat Q Anon.


Fun fact. Putin did actually say if given a choice who he would prefer Trump or Biden. And he said Biden.

He said a predictable cold war dinosaur was far better for Russia than an unpredictable and unstable nutjob like Trump.

Putin is and always has been pragmatic.

The anti LGBT stuff is the doing of the Orthodox Church much like the Protestant church in the USA for the same reasons.


And an incompetent strongman who doesn't care about democracy is exactly what the US championed in Russia. It is why Yeltsin is the only Russian president ever supported by the US and praised while he was drunk and shelling the Duma.



And you seem determined to pretend bog standard social conservatism that exists across the world is somehow something unique now.



And as for citation on Russian policy it is very public knowledge. Good example is the Russian equivalent of a State of the Union which is translated in multiple languages.


And the fact that they are to the left of the Democrats is simply a fact.



And again I am not the one dragging out decades old anti soviet tropes and cliches and channeling Hillary Clinton.


All you need to know about Western Russian relations is the only Russian politicians the west has ever championed was a permanently drunk and violent fool and an ethno nationalist.

@Elessar Something to understand about Western foreign policy. Russia, China, and Iran are three countries where the media or really anyone can make shit up and it is immediately declared fact and if it is proven wrong there are zero consequences and where anything up to including organizations run by cults are accepted as legitimate media sources in the case of China.

As long as the press is all negative of course.