• jj4211@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Yeah, in the nineties there was a lot of optimism and in fact, some decent cooperation.

    However, a major flaw is that Russia suffered a lot and people didn’t see that prosperity everyone just assumed would follow.

    So while in the West, we were partying down about our prospective new buddies, the situation was actually pretty bad in Russia, and Putin found a receiptive audience in that context.