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Ha! Imagine western nations listening to their citizens instead of their rulers.

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Contrary to countries in the East where they have all the freedoms, like, say, China? Russia?

What are you trying to say exactly?

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We should be better than that.

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Every country has to wrestle with their own form of oligarchy. There is always a subgroup of power hungry individuals that want to be ruling the kingdom.

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I mean yeah, makes sense. Russia is a direct threat to us all. Fuck the US if they think their egg prices are more important than European security and not having dictators have their ways.

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American here and I agree. Our government is a disaster right now so it’s better to focus on something actionable, like defeating Putin.

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your government are all nazis. and half of your population are fascists. we (ukraine and eu) can’t trust you, and hopefully we will learn from it this time.

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the NAZIs actually based some of thier systems on the americans racist policies, like segegation and what not. and we never actually eradicated our nazis sympathesizers from the 40s, they just passed it on to the next gen and the next after that.

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Yeah I was reading something about this.

The USA was big into eugenics and the Nazis kinda got the idea from them. There was a lot of support for eugenics in the USA in the first half of the 20th century. Sterilisations et cetera.

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How dare you lob facts at us as if they’re insults…

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Am US citizen living in the UK. Can confirm.

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Am UK citizen living in US. Halp.

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Happy to send you branstons pickle or Cadbury or something to ease your anxiety, though.

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Idk why you think me of all people is gonna help you lol. I’m not trading places. No take backsies! Find a Farage supporter and ask them!

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They’re right too. The US has the luxury of turning a blind eye. The UK and Europe does not.

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As they always do. It’s easy to build your “great” empire if all your wars and enemies are far away.

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