If he speaks Russian better than you speak English, his expertise is OK.==
However I speak english I don't try to expert on Britain or United State. Since I did never pretended as that so I post only in thread concerned Russia. The matter I know better.
I even don't post nothing to original threads concerning for example polish matters. I do not expert on Poland.
BUT I see many people from few countries who beleived that they may write articles "about Russia".
Those articles (like that of thread) are not about Russia accualy but about usual author's stereotypes of outsiders. No matter how good russian of such author is his stereotypes are scewed.
Most strange. That I see people from different countries who try to pretend as moral authority but in same time thier own countries was and is nothing better. Ancient russin question is: "Who are the judges?". Firstly we have to find out this before any judgements. Judges has to be exemplerary or shut up.
If AMERICANS judge Russia then I'm not against it since America IS moral authority for russians. But no Poland, Baltics and so on.
"If AMERICANS judge Russia then I'm not against it since America IS moral authority for russians. But no Poland, Baltics and so on."
That says it all. You gave yourself away. America is a moral authority for you, because America is powerful. For me, America is not a moral authority, or Russia, or any other country in the world. The only moral authority is God. But you know nothing about it, don't you?
By the way, sorry for that remark about your English. I was a bit pissed off, you know. You may write your posts even in Mandarin, I'm not going to read them anyway.