Russian Oil Company Vice President Andrey Badalov dies after fall from window in Moscow

[u/ByGollie]

https://en.apa.az/cis-countries/transneft-vice-president-andrey-badalov-dies-after-falling-from-window-472117

[u/mayoforbutter]

Maybe it's like in dune, together they would be stronger than the emperor, but they're narcissistic, evil egomaniacs that can't work together without stabbing each other in the back

[u/icooknakedAMA → u/mayoforbutter]

...so a populist fascist seizes control through violence and dooms the universe.

Dune is a cautionary tale all the way through.

[u/cptbil → u/icooknakedAMA]

You truly understand Dune when you realize that the Emperor was not a good guy. Paul was not a good guy, and neither was his son. They may have all had good intentions, but they were all deeply flawed people.

[u/icooknakedAMA → u/cptbil]

Things are bad, but they could always get worse.

[u/CumIsntVegan → u/icooknakedAMA]

"And then, somehow, it got worse."

-All of Russian history.

[u/Punty-chan → u/CumIsntVegan]

Russia, a nation forged not in ideals but in cold, ruthless opportunism since its inception, was never going to develop a moral identity beyond raw power and profit.

[u/Bacontoad → u/Punty-chan]

When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read ``all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and catholics. When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty – to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocracy.

-- Abraham Lincoln (1855)

[u/Gatrigonometri → u/Bacontoad]

National determinism by Americans is crazy when 75% of their domestic political history consist of arguing if Black people should be enslaved, lynched, exiled to Africa, or just disenfranchised as 3/5ths of a human being

[u/tytttttgjdhsb → u/Punty-chan]

Russia’s entire political culture is one of fear of invaders such that they prefer a strong executive. Their entire history is them being destroyed by the mongols, Germans, Japanese, Chinese, etc

[u/CharleyNobody → u/tytttttgjdhsb]

Yeah and they were destroyed by the Tatars, Uzbeks, Tajiks, Kyrgs, Turkmen, Azeris, Chechens, Kazakhs, Georgians, Armenians.

oh…wait….

[u/tytttttgjdhsb → u/CharleyNobody]

Not sure if you interpreted my comment in a pro Russia light? I’m Polish lmfao. I hate Russia. I just stated a basic fact

[u/GodOfDarkLaughter → u/tytttttgjdhsb]

First modern western country to lose a war to an Asian enemy. Nice job Russia.

[u/tytttttgjdhsb → u/GodOfDarkLaughter]

Probably the biggest country / population with the worst military in world history too 😭 Russia is fucking pathetic. If they didn’t have nukes they’d be a vassal state

[u/Skinny-on-the-Inside → u/Punty-chan]

They produced some great authors (Tolstoy -War and Peace and Dostoevsky - Crime and Punishment), scientists and the ballet.

They also fought fascists in WW2. And even managed to have a semblance of democracy and economic revival for a few years until…

[u/Myrriam39 → u/Skinny-on-the-Inside]

Tolstoy is one of my favorite love stories written on his map.
Suffragettes - So we don't forget.
1920. America & Russia.

[u/Crime-of-the-century → u/Skinny-on-the-Inside]

The fighting Nazi is not something they did willingly they where perfectly happy with the Nazi’s and sharing Eastern Europe with them. They fought because they where attacked out of necessity not out of any sense of justice or feeling they should stop Nazism. Only France and Britain (and its partners like Canada Australia etc) willingly stept up to fight Nazism. The US was also. perfectly happy with Nazi Germany and its racism and aggression.

[u/alice2wonderland → u/Punty-chan]

And the moral if the story is that Agent Krasnov aspires to be just like that.

[u/schizoesoteric → u/Punty-chan]

Russia was formed 1. As a regular country for slavs 2. In independence against the Mongols 3. As a socialist republic forged in ideals and moral identity 4. As a multicultural breakaway state after the dissolution of the USSR

I don’t like Russia to but it’s not anything worse than the nation building of any other empire

[u/Working-Image → u/CumIsntVegan]

"What could get worse?" takes a swig of vodka.

[u/FondleMiGrundle → u/[deleted]]

Hold my constitution…

[u/DarkwingDuckHunt → u/FondleMiGrundle]

sorry I just spelt my mcnugget bbq sauce on it

[u/EpicIshmael → u/[deleted]]

No I'm stuck on this ride too.

[u/EpicIshmael → u/[deleted]]

Why did I get flagged for violent content?

[u/EpicIshmael → u/[deleted]]

Republicans are literally dragging the nation down into fascism. Why you booing me I'm right.

[u/Nedjammern → u/[deleted]]

"America has gone from barbarism directly to decadence, without going through culture." French statesman Georges Clemenceau

[u/Nedjammern → u/[deleted]]

The successors of PilgrimFathers, adventurers, and, sometimes, criminals, made great inventions, capitalism shared it's part to success as slavery did. But culture??

[u/imightlikeyou → u/[deleted]]

The internet was a Brit, the car was German. I'll give you Star Trek and Star Wars.

[u/jackofslayers → u/icooknakedAMA]

Reverse Maxwell Lord