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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Russian politics is a bizar spectacle and apparently we have no idea what’s really going on.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It's a soulless and savage (and ultimately mind-numbingly boring) spectacle, vulgar and cruel. As entertainment, I would put it on a par with dogfighting. By which I mean it should not exist, but there are too many psychotic people in society for it to ever be put out of its' vulgar, cruel misery.

EDIT: As power politics go, this is like the mafia or drug cartels, with a bunch of short-term clever but long-term stupid pigs jockeying for top position, using each other's families - their own wives and sons and daughters - as pawns, as collateral damage, as cannon fodder.