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How do you make someone understand that being drafted by force and ordered to invade another country is not a good thing? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 3 months ago by index@sh.itjust.works to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] WanderingVentra@lemm.ee -1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

That's only because Russia has already privatized and sold off all of its national assets to oligarchs after the fall of the USSR.

[–] PoY@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 3 months ago

that doesn't make sense in the context of the post you replied to

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

The reason the US has a special hate-on for Putin is precisely because he kicked the Western shock therapists out of the country. He stanched the tide of privatization.