The Russian people have been accustomed to living under the heel of one despotic psychopath or another for centuries.Events of the last 20 years have shown...or at least strongly suggested...that the Russian people are truly an irredeemable “race”.
And we have a president who thinks that is cool.
Now, years later, things are somewhat better, but in regard to lifestyle, a poor Frenchman or Italian, living in the unfashionable part of Marseilles or Naples, and let's face it, our welfare poor, have it all over these ex-Soviets.
Now they know it! Hard to take. They'll follow anyone who throws'em a bone. When do they get another pair of shoes? A car? Cable TV?
If the Ukrainians didn’t overthrow their government (with our help) Russia wouldn’t have had an excuse to get involved. Instead we’re headed back towards a Cold War. Thanks alot McCain.
He says...
...” the best hope for democracy is the large numbers of young people who go abroad to study and come back with different ideas of how a political system can be developed. “If we have young, politically ‘literate people’ coming through, that is the way to democratise.”
I agree with him...too many citizens don’t understand how ‘democracy’ works...in their minds if your side wins that it....done deal. So to them it’s their way or the highway.
It takes time to move generations who still hold to the cold war mentality as well.....however you certainly can’t say the USA is any better for how Obama is running the show now here. HE sees it that way too.
BUMP
This is becoming more obvious by the day