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To: duckln
Post Communism Russia is not the Soviet Union

It can be argued that Communist Russia was Czarist Russia with less food and with post-communist Russia we are back to Czarist Russia without the titles.

Russia really does not change.

They have been playing "The Great Game" for a thousand years now. They are not the West, they are not the East. They are themselves. And while our interests may run in tandem for a while you should never turn your back on them or expect them to keep their word unless it is to their advantage.

In some ways they are much like China.

30 posted on 08/07/2018 12:23:10 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Somewhere there's danger, somewhere there's injustice, and somewhere else the tea is getting cold.)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

“And while our interests may run in tandem for a while you should never turn your back on them or expect them to keep their word unless it is to their advantage.”

Thank goodness we don’t act like that around the world.


46 posted on 08/07/2018 10:35:20 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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