“The biggest danger that we have is not military might or the economy,” Latvian President Edgars Rinkevics said in an interview. “This penetration that those regimes are still good at, and addressing the core values of our societies, that’s where our strategy is not very well thought out and successful.”

Read: "We must institutionalise neoliberalism in the EU, crush dissent and shut down anything pro-RU, anti-EU, anti-NATO."

Putin and other autocrats — China’s Xi Jinping, Iran’s leaders and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un — perceive America to be stumbling, and see an opportunity to reject democracy and promote autocracy.

4 countries, one of which is the DPRK (who the collective West has been laughing at for decades), versus some 35-40 countries in the pro-UA coalition. They dunk on themselves with this kind of rhetoric.

“The West is going to lose, not because it is fundamentally weak, but because there are no real leaders in the West,” he [Khodorovsky] added. “You have to be bold, decisive. You have to tell your populations, ‘Look, we’re living through the Cold War, which could quickly descend into the Third World War.’”
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On 20 December 2013, Putin signed a pardon freeing Khodorkovsky.[152] Following his release, Khodorkovsky addressed the media at a news conference in Berlin, Germany. He referred to himself as a "political prisoner", and stated he would not re-enter business or politics.[153] Khodorkovsky stated in a December 2014 interview that he was not violating his promise to Putin to avoid politics, but was only engaged in "civil society work... politics is in essence a battle to get yourself elected, personally. I'm not interested in this.

Putin broke him.

“He is building a dictatorship,” Kara-Murza said. “An ideology has to be introduced in order to make those very young Russians into good Russian soldiers who can one day go and invade yet another territory of yet another independent state.”

“An ideology has to be introduced in order to make those very young Americans into good American soldiers who can one day go and invade yet another territory of yet another independent state.”

It's only bad when Russia does it.

“Once we saw the massive Ukraine invasion plan, we knew definitively that Putin wasn’t buying ‘stable and predictable,’” Victoria Nuland, who was the third-ranking official at the State Department, said in an interview.

They betray themselves with their own mouth.

“To get a coherent Russia strategy, one needs also to figure out how to build a China strategy,” said Rinkevics, the Latvian president. “Those are going to be very interlinked in coming years.”

Lmao, who gives a shit what the president of Latvia, a neoliberal hellhole thinks (population 1,842,226 and dropping).

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 5 months ago

“To get a coherent Russia strategy, one needs also to figure out how to build a China strategy,” said Rinkevics, the Latvian president. “Those are going to be very interlinked in coming years.”

Lmao, who gives a shit what the president of Latvia, a neoliberal hellhole thinks (population 1,842,226 and dropping).

That was actually the best part, openly said what we tankies were cassandraing for years that the attack on Russia is actually the prelude to attack on China which is the real target.