• bthest@lemmy.world
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      We’ve always collected them. The Shah, Batista, Santa Anna, the police chief who executed a prisoner in Saigon, President Thieu, that dumb woman who thought she would get put in power in Venezuela if she gave Trump her Nobel Peace prize.

      We almost had Napoleon I too (that would have been pretty cool though)

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      only the ones that russia financially supported, also they will house any useful propaganda mouth pieces from the west. like TULSI, seagull, assad. and use people like snowden as well.

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      8 hours ago

      Idi Amin spent the last couple of decades of his life in Saudi Arabia. I can’t think of anything that Saudi Arabia has in common with Russia …

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        I can’t think of anything that Saudi Arabia has in common with Russia …

        The prosperity of both seem to have a lot to do with oil exports.

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          SA is worst off, thier only export is oil, thats why they are desperately trying to diversify, sportswashing, buying games,etc. russia as other resources besides oil.

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            russia as other resources besides oil

            Such as?

            I don’t think krokodil is considered a ‘resource’.