Pretty gross. Comments every bit as awful as you're thinking. Just a reminder of the abysmal state of non-cishet rights and acceptance in Russia.
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T1: Putin on accusations against Russia in the energy crisis: "European countries are big specialists in non-traditional relationships and themselves abandoned traditional energy sources in favor of non-traditional ones"
T2: ("non-traditional relationships" is the legal term in Russia for all things "LGBT")
A multipolar world would be nice because it would actually allow opportunity for the left as things crack up but yea there will be plenty of other actors also interested in that opportunity
Yeah. I think I need to read Samir Amin's "Beyond US Hegemony: Assessing the Prospects for a Multipolar World" again