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We allied with Stalin in world war III, now that's evil. Putin will be a good ally against China, who is an actual threat to the United States.

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An ally that has broken pretty much any agreement he has ever made, invades neighbouring countries and spins alternative facts around to justify it, suppresses and fights just about any values that the USA used to hold, and played a key role in the KGB, a hostile secret service? An ally that is ever more dependent on China economically?

I refuse to believe you can be so dense to actually think that!

It's so heavily being pushed on social media right now, I suspect it's coming from the same forces who tried to make people believe that Trump would deliver more weapons to Ukraine and that Trump would be the better option for Palestine.

Putin ally against China? He's the one who signed a "no limits" friendship deal with Xi Xinping. China and Russia are intimate trading partners and they have shared geopolitical interests. Why would he object if China wants to take over Taiwan or something?

Russia and Germany signed the non-aggression pact.

Let me quote Harry S. Truman:

> If we see that Germany is winning we ought to help Russia and if Russia is winning we ought to help Germany, and that way let them kill as many as possible.

Oh look, new talking point on why aligning with Putin is actual fine has dropped.

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