Note how Putin defines the “West” and “Russia” separately. They don’t consider themselves Western in any real sense. Russia has always been the wicked sister, looking with jealous envy and contemptuous spite at the prosperous, wealthy Western Europeans (and eventually America too). Unable to join the party, they sought only to damage the West.
Patton was probably right. They seem to be mongoloid in ideology. Always preferring some form of top-down man-god control or corrupt autocracy.
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