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Threats, insults, and Kremlin 'robots': How Russian diplomacy died under Putin (www.bbc.com)

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Russia's diplomats were once a key part of President Putin's foreign policy strategy. But that has all changed.

In the years leading up to Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, diplomats lost their authority, their role reduced to echoing the Kremlin's aggressive rhetoric.

BBC Russian asks former diplomats, as well as ex-Kremlin and White House insiders, how Russian diplomacy broke down.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Sorry kiddo but we're talking about our garden and our yards in front and behind the house and not the jungle right outside our pristine whitewashed picket fence

did they fix the emoji thing yet?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

No, "maybe later" ones are normal size but the porky is humongous.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Lmao as big as their ego