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And Russia, Turkey, Saudi Arabia... The list is long. Western democracies don't seem to care of all the sweet dollar that is to be made in these countries. At least Russia used to pretend to play by established rules.

The problem with these rules, IMHO, is that they were created to serve the interests of western powers. Hard to force other countries to play by them, then.




You are very right.

The "our bastard" doctrine was an idiocy on massive scale, and continues to be one.

The West has bred all the snakes in the snake pit they ended up in now itself.

> "He may be a bastard, but he's our bastard."

There is no yours, or their bastards, there are just bastards.




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