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Trump says Putin meeting set for next week in Alaska amid push for ceasefire in Ukraine (www.nbcnews.com)
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[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Choices:

  • guy who was in the KGB and directly coordinated with the Stasi in the GDR for quite a while and then ascended to power in the shell of the Cold War enemy of the entire western hemisphere, which has the fringe benefit of owning thousands of strategic nuclear warheads
  • guy who lost money while running a casino, and almost certainly got honeypotted (very possibly fairly directly in terms of orchestration by the first guy)

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[–] mgnome@piefed.social 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Directly coordinated with the Stasi

Nah, he was kinda nobody as KGB agent, sitting his ass off in some dusty cabinet, and then upon end of his duty in Germany, going home and, ironically, taking only a washing machine with himself. If USSR continued to exist - he'd be nothing out of ordinary retiree, because security agents were not allowed into ruling class.

But, to DDR's credit - there are governmental practices in modern Russia, absolutely inspired by DDR - such as having one "ruling" party in parliament and few "clown" parties to imitate democracy.

So I'd rather see that as a meeting of two old losers, because Putin rules Russia like Trump ran his casino.