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Dear BobL,

I have a deep passion for Russia, you can call it obsession. Fair.

So yes, I do tend to post on Russia-related matters. I especially like to focus on whats happening *inside* the country as that seems to be the elephant in the room with all the distracting talk about U.S. collusion conspiracies and whatnot.

What’s going on inside Russia affects its behavior towards the outside world. And a lot of people have a very false impression of the place. It’s lovely place, but it’s not some sort of racially homogeneous, homosexual-free, Christian utopian outpost where daddy Putin cares for and is beloved by all as the army sets out to save the world from Islamic terrorists. Far from it.

There are leaders in the GOP, who are staunchly pro-Trump like Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton, who recently released a statement saying: “Vladimir Putin has once again thrown Alexei Navalny in jail because he is afraid of his own people - and what they would do if they were free. Every time he imprisons an opposition leader, it only shows the world just how corrupt and oppressive his regime truly is.”

Cotton and others like him unanimously agreed to imposing greater sanctions on Russia for interfering in American political process. And so my “preoccupation” with the threat Putin’s Russia poses is not solo by any means, but shared by true conservatives I appreciate and respect.

We are in proxy military war with Russia at this point...And this was the natural outcome of Trump’s election because he is not about to let Putin rule the Middle East with Iran and cohort - even if we had some initial goals like defeating ISIS in common.

So the situation is even graver, and far more life and death at this point than dealing with a few pesky online trolls.