Putin’s new world order
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Yeah, those hopeless western romantics. It's all about "helping bring democracy". Controlling the area, putting friendly lackeys in power, ensuring cheap resources, and showing the world who's "cop" obviously doesn't have anything to do with those interventions. Or that dictators are welcome and nourished when they are doing their work for them, from the Sakh and Pinochet to the more hardcore arab regimes.
Oh, and that those interventions repeatedly end in nightmarish non-democratic destroyed societies (but that still serve their purpose in destabilizing the area) must be a total accident.