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Originally Posted by finnbow
You're speaking of a Putin from 20 years ago. He's a different person now. Back then, he wanted Russia to join NATO. Now he is the leader of an autocratic kleptocracy and wants to keep it that way. You seem stuck in the 1990's and early 2000's with respect to Putin. Try to keep up.
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Vlad's world view is shaped largely by the bombing and sacking of Libya by Nato which resulted in a failed state and the reappearance of open slave markets.
Russia under Medvedev abstained to vote at the UN. A decision it rued to this day.
The obscene exultation by certain figures following Libya's destruction was broadcasted worldwide.
Some felt that Libya's main sin...it wanted to de-dollarize.