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echoangleyesterday at 11:32 PM2 repliesview on HN

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_republic

Banana republic isn’t specific to US control and it’s actually not that unreasonable to call Russia a banana republic


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bdammtoday at 12:13 AM

Because their economy is almost exclusively oil? Quite a few countries of the world would qualify if that's the case.

ray023today at 12:25 AM

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