Free Republic is besotted with narrow minded Russophiles."
Thanks so much for your very kind words, much appreciated.
Forgive me, but I think of such people as you mention here as potential sparring partners -- just as every actual boxer needs sparring partners to practice on, our pro-Russians here provide us with endless opportunities to practice our art and skills at using the truth to answer their lies, nonsense and propaganda.
Of course, we never actually defeat our sparring partners, for one thing, we need them for the next day's events.
But, and this is my prayer & hope, there will be others who can watch and see and judge fairly which sides are making the better cases and arguments, given all the circumstances around Free Republic's publicly available forum.