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[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca -1 points 1 week ago

The US was very open that they liked Putin because it seemed he would be liberalising Russia for a while

They liked Gorbachoev and especially Yeltsin for being a CIA stooge privatsing Russia with western capital. Putin turned away from that pretty early on.