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So your belief is that trump is acting on behalf of a government that has not existed for 40 years?
The allegation is that it was more of a 'meet the new boss, same as the old boss' situation for him.
Yeah except the criminals who run Russia now are not communists so they’re not the same at all
Different ideologies Same bosses/corruption
You think Putin isn’t were he is because of what the Soviet Union had before? He didn’t throw it all away
Dude take a chill pill. Reverting to ad hominem is not very useful. Even if you, as I presume, are an ardent communist, you can understand that it’s no wonder that a former KGB agent is the dictator of Russia. Power in one form, even if it is corrupted from your idealist view of it, can very easily migrate to power in another form.
I think it’s a fair statement to say that those arguing that he could be a “Soviet” asset are meaning that he started as one, not that there is a super secret Soviet shadow government continuing 40 years post collapse.
But either way, why call your fellow human worthless? Shouldn’t, even if you view them as ignorant, your goal to be to raise them up? Talking things out is how we find truth. I think generally the ideals of communism, not talking of its implementation, represent a good amount of empathy at the macro level; so why not keep that empathy that you have for the micro level.
I hope you have a good day.
Thank you
Not even going to give him a reply
Okay but Putin was nobody in the KGB. He had a high salary, knew more shady foreigners, he had some advantages sure, but it's not like the rest of the KGB is who formed the new governments. His job was transcribing Nazi pub banter, essentially the spy version of a market analyst, and then he was fired for being a Nazi sympathiser.
On the worthless comment, it was very harsh, we shouldn't talk that way about other people. But I did think it was funny and wouldn't take it as a slight if directed at me, more just a funny way to express frustration.
Putin was a mid/upper KGB functionary.
And that a very large number of the people who did very well put of the collapse of the USSR were former communist party officials who got in early on raiding the USSR's corpse.
Trump isn't acting on behalf of the USSR in general, but he definitely is funded by and owes favours to older wealthy Russians.
One older Russian, in particular.
You are being pedantic and you know it.