• Grapho@lemmy.mlOP
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    1 day ago

    I don’t mean it to be a perfect analogy, I just found it funny that these are two idiots enacting big sweeping changes in political or economic organization that are likely to end up killing the host. Gorbachev’s USSR died at the hands of the US and its puppets while in the US capital seems to be cannibalizing itself.

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      1 day ago

      I’m not sure calling Gorbechev an idiot is right though.

      Just because he was a victim of external interests, as you describe. Feels a bit victim-blamey.

      “Look what you made the US do to you”.

      Yeltsin, maybe though.