This is, BTW, a return to the pre-commie days.
The Tsarist secret police, the Okhrana, operated exactly this way. Except I don’t think the Tsar himself was usually cut in on the deals.
This is, BTW, a return to the pre-commie days.
Good point. What we see here is nothing new. An ugly vein of Russian chauvinism and history shows itself again. Fact is, the average Russian considers all of the former Soviet Union part of “Russia”. This won’t end well when a nuclear armed aggressor has such an attitude.