—”News from Russia is like looking through two such glass panes.”
TRUE!
“I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma; but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest.”
Churchill 1939
And “Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.”
― Lao Tsu
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