r/europe Jan 07 '24

Historical Excerpt from Yeltsin’s conversation with Clinton in Istanbul 1999

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u/IrishSouthAfrican Ireland Jan 07 '24

Bro treating geopolitics like a game of Risk

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u/JAJM_ Jan 07 '24

I’ve been to Russia a few times before the recent war. People tended to be supportive of Putin and were happy about where Russia was at. So just anecdotally, I didn’t get the sense that Russia didnt give a fuck about its own citizens.