• Audeamus [any]
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    4 years ago

    That's a fair gripe, but the actual quote is “weaken the Russian State’s influence on its near neighbours”, not the UK, so you're doing a bit of misleading yourself ;-). And because it's 'weaken Russia's influence by inserting UK/US influence' it's not benign/defensive the way it sounds without context. So "weaken Russia" shouldn't be in quotes, but it's a fair summary of the article's content.