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		Skwid 4 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city ... The situations are not the same, but western nations are absolutely funding Putin’s actions through oil and gas imports. Despite a lot of posturing, and a fair amount of presumably sincere effort, billions continue to flow.
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AlecSchueler 4 days ago [–]

But considerably less than before the war and the EU are making efforts to decouple themselves, it's just not a switch that could be turned off, certainly not in the same way that support for Israel could be or could have been in the past decades.

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