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The modern persistence of tyrants (anachronistic)
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Magical Realist Offline Mar 12, 2022 10:18 PM
(Mar 12, 2022 01:45 PM)elte Wrote: https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/...tin-tyrant

Quote:  When Vladimir Putin sent Russian forces into Crimea in 2014, then-Secretary of State John Kerry professed bewilderment that such imperial aggression could happen in the modern age.

That's what struck me when I saw videos of Russian tanks and trucks gathering at the Ukraine border. This is so World War 2, like watching an old war movie. I thought we were over that shit.
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elte Offline Mar 12, 2022 10:26 PM
For sure
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