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The USSR's Legacy in the Ukraine War: Molly McKew

Politics + Media 101

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The Russian Aspect of the Ruling Oligarch in Georgia Has Made a Lot of Bad, Strategically Weak Decisions

Georgia has been an interesting case study in how you can weaken a country while pretending to be pro western. The georgian government is just checked out completely. Has nothing to say about ukraine. Has openly said, we're not going to help them. We have interests with russia that are more important to us. It'll be an interesting thing to see what happens in the coming couple of years. In georgia there's this complete difference in whirldview between the countries that have this experience of soviet russian oppression and then these countries in the west who were often aggressors in conflicts.

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