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The idea that Conquering Russia might have been easy at the time of the Soviet collapse is false. Russia didn't do collapse. They simply recognized that the way to better advancement for themselves and their satellite states was freedom. Freedom means free trade.
In other words, the Soviet collapse was the beginning of Russia's war that is conquering the the US and Nato right now. It was the beginning of free trade between Russia and the world. The form of free trade was advancing better than the free trade that the US and Nato were doing. That's part of the reason the US and Nato are fighting via Ukraine. Sneaky rather than hones war... just the way the US and her banks always do.
How do we know all this?
1. The US is making threats and war against Russia. The threats and war are less hidden each day as more info about the depth of the US armament to Ukraine is revealed.
2. The US is doing this because their banking industry is based on contracts and treaties full of lies. Russia's is based on using real money in trade... except where Russia successfully copied US money when trading with anybody who used US money.
3. Russia has bypassed the sanctions and grown stronger in trade with countries that want to trade with her... BRICS.
4. People (simple citizens) of the US and Nato are feeling the pinch of US banking faulty operations against Russia (creating more fake money through loans to the US government for Ukraine), while at the same time Russia's general strength from its people is stronger.
You write fiction novels. You write based on old Russia. You seem to have a biased attitude against Russia. But if you don't, you write the way a paid propagandist writes.
It seems that you don't understand that Democracy is almost the same as Dictatorship. People who think that democracy is better have been tricked into believing so. US democracy is showing us this right now. Its being shown in the fact that the US government is lying to its people. It is coming out into the open with Tucker and many other things and reporters.
Wake up and see that, even if Russia doesn't become strong and win, the rest of the world will go right down with her if she falls.
Freedom and trade are different concepts. Of course, in conditions of freedom, trade leads to the development of civilization. But there was also trade between democracies and countries with a totalitarian regime, for example, with the USSR or with Putin's Russia, before the sanctions, which are caused by Russian aggression.
As I see it, you are the paid propagandist here. All your comments here are copying Putin's lies. The West, though late, but understood. that the Empire of Lies and Evil must be stopped. Russian fascism will not pass!
Russian fascism was started by the US. It hasn't caught up to the US, and it doesn't want to.
Free trade between countries leads to whatever the country leaders dictate. Just because there is free trade between countries doesn't mean there is free trade between the citizens of the countries.
In large countries like the US and Russia, democracy and dictatorship produce almost the same results. The people are squashed under the lies of the leaders. Note that the people are of different mindsets. Some of the people like being squashed under their leaders, because it benefits them somehow... or at least they think it does.
Before the sanctions, Russia was playing the game of trade with other countries in ways that were beneficial to Russia. That's why they shut down the Soviet Union. Some of those ways were to agree with other countries in the ways that the other countries were playing the game. It was beneficial to Russia to do it this way at that time.
After the sanctions started, there wasn't any benefit for Russia to keep on playing the trade game they had been playing. So, they looked in other areas to find what worked for them. This brings them to China and Iran, etc., to trade with. It brings them to the point of improving and increasing BRICS.
One of the things that they found was a bunch of other countries that didn't like the way the West did their trading. Many of these countries are seeing just how bad the West is with its lying banking system that is trying to rule the world; the sanctions are showing this to everybody... bringing it out into the open.
Does Russia lie? Does Putin lie? Certainly. But all western trade is based on a gigantic trade lie. This lie is that they convert loans and contracts into money, and then they multiply the money value of the loans and contracts that they have made. The money of the West is almost all fake money.
US fake money looks good. It looks good until people and foreign governments figure out is is fake. Putin and Russian leaders would rather trade true value for true value. They don't want fake money. Why not? Because the fake money will collapse sooner or later. It's happening now for the West.
Look at all the governments of all the countries. The people running them are always looking to make a 'profit' for themselves and their countries. But the West is making their profit based on banking and trading fake money... lies. They are doing this way more than Russia and Putin could ever think of doing it, and certainly don't want to do it.
The point isn't that Putin and Russia aren't bad. They are. The point is that the West and their leaders (generally) are worse... by many country miles.
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