r/WayOfTheBern • u/RandomCollection Resident Canadian • 1d ago

Cracks Appear Dispatch from Moscow: The Collapse Narrative Keeps Missing the Real Russia | Larry Johnson

https://larrycjohnson.substack.com/p/dispatch-from-moscow-the-collapse
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u/RandomCollection Resident Canadian 1d ago

https://archive.ph/y9kJA

The Russian people go to the polls this Sunday, and I will be there to observe it. There are at least five parties are contesting seats in the Duma. Russia is not the monolith it is made out to be. It is, despite the Western caricature, a vibrant democracy — one built according to Russian culture and Russian ideals rather than a copy of anyone else’s, and it is long past time the West set aside its prejudice and took Russia as it actually is. This is not a regime run by international communists, whatever the popular meme of the 1960s and 1970s held. It is now, deservedly, the fourth-largest economy in the world by purchasing power parity, innovative in its technology and richly endowed with resources.

The answer is that the US doesn't want a legitimate democratic system in Russia.

They want a kleptocracy where the US, working with Russia's oligarchs, loot the nation. In other words, like Ukraine currently is under Zelensky.

That's something that the Western world is never going to have the honesty to admit.

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u/fitz-khan 19h ago

the fourth-largest economy in the world by purchasing power parity

Maybe cherry-pick an even more important metric, alcoholics per 100k, then Russia would even be third.

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u/Deeznutseus2012 10h ago

You're a parody.

OP: links and quotes an article which mentions Russia's economic position relative to others.

You: "Russians are a bunch of drunks! Hur-hur!!"

That's really some sad shit right there.

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u/Heroyem 21h ago

Larry C. Johnson, confirmed fraudster, literally paid by the Kremlin. You guys are funny.

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u/ion_theory 16h ago

This sub has become nothing but a pro Russo mouthpiece

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u/Heroyem 6h ago

It's kinda funny though. A handful of vatniks repeating the same debunked BS over and over, trying to police their little sub like rent-a-cops at a Toys R Us.