Your brain on Robert Conquest.

Never heard of him before 50 seconds ago.

I mean really, how much evidence do you require for Soviet aggression before agreeing that reasonable people could be justified in looking askance at the USSR?

One of the very few positive outcomes of the 1991 collapse is the release of Soviet documents. Puts the lie to all the anti-communist dogshit histories the West has pumped out over the decades.

Oh, right. Documents from commie archives counters the fact that the USSR invaded Ukraine, Poland, Finland, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, the entire Eastern Bloc that it never relinquished and brutally oppressed, etc.

The documents show they had the BEST INTENTIONS!

I'm so, so glad that the West is dying so that people like you become less relevant to everyone else

Petrodollar going byebye.

Are you even capable of having the same conversation?

You hop from topic to topic like no one else, refusing to put two things together. It's how you can so seamlessly go from talking about NATO turning the richest country in Africa into one with slave markets in the morning to saying NATO is a defensive alliance in the afternoon.

You are incapable of conversation because you are incapable of synthesizing information.

The only difference between you and Palasan is that he's 5 IQ dumber.

It's called *not affording the same value/importance to an item of information as you*

Libya was all about petrodollar hegemony, not the goals and function of NATO.

Lmao rich coming from a village idiot who works for rubles posting kremlin bullshit online.

NATO is a defensive alliance, but it destroyed Libya and Yugoslavia. Libya wasn't about the 'goals and function of NATO', yet NATO was there to destroy it. Libya is about the petrodollar (? pretty sure you don't know what the petrodollar is), but Russia... isn't?

You don't get to where you are by valuing tibbits and factoids differently, you get to where you are by compartmentalizing information so effectively that you are able to feel no cognitive dissonance when you hold two irreconcilable beliefs.

This is why it's pointless talking to you. Even if I ever get you to agree with something mundane like "1991 was a disaster for Russians", it will not go even a miniscule amount to getting you to understand Russian motivations for anything.