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Most south americans consider imperialism from the north the major concern today as yesterday and think the enemy of my enemy is my friend.

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Plus, tankies are a thing.

So how does that make them support imperialist Putin? No logic there unless it's all about corruption as above, which is almost always the case with Putin's puppets.

For some reason Russia retains the anti-imperalist reputation of Soviet propaganda despite both being extremely imperial.

I think it's because neither incarnation could do imperialism via a navy so all the countries not on the Russian periphery never experienced it.

Yeah, soviets were imperialists as bad as they come, and modern Russia isn't any better. One must be really dumb to buy into such propaganda.

Back then may be access to information was harder, but there is no excuse today.

The Russians may be imperialists but lucky for South American countries they rarely leave their neighbourhood and have never visited the western hemisphere.

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