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So Poutine wanted to weaken NATO, ends up adding countries, including one that has been neutral for an incredibly long time.

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Sweden has a strong military industry too and Finnland is literally right at Russia’s border. Putin is a master strategist.

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Dude really read a history book about Hitler fighting a one front war and somehow turning it into a three front war and said “Hold my beer”

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Your comment reminded me of this video, highly worth a watch : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=si9Phc9ArpU

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17 points

Your spellcheck outed you as a Canadian

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Side note, this is also the French spelling of Putin. So you can eat Poutine while being mad at Poutine (I’ll let you guess which is which, unless you’re a cannibal then everything goes TBF).

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Sorry, french changes the spelling of proper nouns?

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I thought it was “putain”

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Yeah, and it made me kinda hungry too…

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11 points

Cheese curds have nothing to do with this.

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You’re right, at least cheese curds get thrown out when the go bad. Kinda like what Putin does with critics.

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[Pours hot gravy on Putin] “A crown for King.”

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Cheese curds go bad? I guess I never let them last long enough to find out.

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I never knew the Russian president was actually a Canadian dish in disguise.

In fact, come to think of it, why don’t the Russians simply eat him? If he’s that delicious then surely they gotta dig in.

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Yeah, he is either stupid or desperate. It does worry me how centralized power balance in the World has become over US controlling most of the conflicts and countries in the World.

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Yeah, he is either stupid or desperate.

I’ll pick the middle option: Putin is high on his own supply.

The man made it clear that dissent will be met with swift and gruesome consequences. This is a sure-fire recipe for surrounding yourself with yes-men that are not smart enough to get the hell out. And BTW, that’s always a career where everyone’s last promotion is “pavement inspector”, and training starts immediately at an open 6th floor window. So there’s some cocky, can’t-guage-risk-for-a-damn people mixed in there too. The result is a bunch of decisions from the head-of-state that only make sense between those in his court, and fail to hold up to scrutiny outside those walls.

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How is the US controlling conflicts and countries?

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By CIA coups, puppet governments, military funding, weapon supplies to insurgents or to the governments, sanctions, etc.

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