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plum-soup:

The fact the US is basically responsible for placing Vladimir Putin in power never ceases to make me giggle

an american bene gesserit might as well have been planning his ascension for the past 104 years and 4 months

Do tell.

Not that I don’t believe it, of course.

Putin was the handpicked successor (and former VP) of Boris Yeltsin, who the U.S. nakedly rigged the 1996 Russian election for against the Communist Party candidate (and then bragged about it)

U.S. to Back Yeltsin if He Suspends Congress (Published 1993)

nytimes.com

In a strong signal of support for President Boris N. Yeltsin of Russia, a senior [Bill Clinton] Administration official said today that Washington would not oppose a move by Mr. Yeltsin to suspend his Parliament or abolish the Soviet-era Constitution to put down his political opposition.[…]

“If Yeltsin suspends an anti-democratic Parliament, it is not necessarily an anti-democratic act,” the official said in an interview.

1993