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> you were happy with over 20 years of war and all your government had to do was say "they hate us cuz we're free".

I honestly cannot tell whether you're a bot, troll, or a mentally sick person.

You have no idea who I am. You have zero ideas what I was happy or not with for the last 20 years. Writing a paragraph like this makes absolutely no fucking sense. I don't even understand what 20 years of war you're referring to?

The next commenter in a similar fashion accused me of working hard to prove something about Epstein.

You cannot just imagine random things about strangers on the internet and then believe in it.

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This is part of the Russian propaganda way of engaging on social media.

The common patterns are:

- they make bold and elaborate claims, filled with resentment from random past events (usually pinned on the US, or if they're in a rough spot they go back to the colonialism of the past centuries of some countries) - but completely out of context. Example: "Why can't Russia invade Ukraine but the US invaded Iraq!", "Why can't Russia expand borders but Western countries had colonies all over the world?"

- they claim you're lying, then proceed to lie without providing sources;

- they distort reality with lies, like : "Russia didn't kidnap 25.000 children, they evacuated them from a war zone" -> ignoring the fact that Russia was the cause of the war, they could allow Ukrainians to evacuate their children, and they should have returned the children.

And the list goes on, but its all very child-like, empty of content, they can write several paragraphs without saying anything.

I'm presuming(hoping) you're US American and not European. Have fun with that attitude on your next election. I'll be consuming a lot of popcorn.

We just had elections a few months ago, it went great. And if it wasn't, that's the great thing about democracies, in a few years it changes.

Not for Russians though which I have no idea if you are or not, but you're very resentful of Western countries (its common on some Russians, Indians, etc...) Maybe you should look more at the shortcomings of the regime you're stuck with, and don't worry about the others who are doing great.

This is especially funny since you're using the privilege of a Western-made platform, most likely with Western tech.

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