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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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[-] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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?