Putin, in his heart and soul, is a Soviet communist.
I suffer from no dilusions here. You keep your enemies closer. You don’t simply ignore them for the better part of six years. If you have a relationship with a tyrant, at least you have some bartering position.
I don’t like what I see in Putin these days. It doesn’t bode well for the future. It could get a lot worse. I would hope that it wouldn’t.
Let’s remember that traditionally Russia and China have not been friendly with one another. Border skirmishes were the norm for decades. Now they’re playing footsie. I don’t think that is the answer. We should be vying for a reasoned working relationship with Russia IMO.
Good God, look what we’ve done with China. We’ve gifted them with decades worth of technology so much so that Russia is betting on them to be the next super-power, one that it wants to side with.
Wouldn’t it have been better to give both a reasoned measure of business, quite limited, than to go the routes we have with both?
Seems to me we kissed China’s ass and mooned Russia. The result is not something I am glad to see.
Putin, in his heart and soul, is a Soviet communist.==
Nope he is just Russian nationalist. He does everything to make money for Russia and himself of cause. Guy is the billioneer already.