Yep, it still surprises me how some people think. Still hanging on to the cold war and old dogma's, while being totally blind to their own faults and mistakes.

Sure Russia is not a democracy like the west wants to see. OTOH, I think you're quite correct that Russia currently building up its economy and trying to expand its influence, just as the US has been doing.

It is quite stunning to them to learn that GWB bush is world wide regarded much more a threat to the world peace than Putin.

It less than two decades that Russia was in a total bankrupty and the USSR fell totally apart. It will take time for all those nations to catch up with the rest of the western world. We need to give them time.






>>I was reading a book recently that described the fallacies of the Soviet response to the German invasion of 1941. What I found extraordinary was that in the afterward in the book the author said that he doubted that further insight could be gained because Putin had cut off most access to the Soviet archives.
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>>Russia is moving towards a nationalistic fascist state. It would not be the first time.
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>Based on what you have read about events that took place 60-70 years ago,(nothing to do with fascisam but anyway)
>or you are refering to Putin denying KGB archive books ?
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>Can you digg up for me some CIA archives on a short notice ? If you wanted to write book about US involvement
>in Colombia or Honduras for instance, (just tiny example). How far would they let you digg ?
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>Constantly blaming Russia is a cheap bid/drift by your policy makers to recreate it as arch-foe that once it used to be,
>whereas this is no longer truth for quiet a bit of time. Russia does things to protect their interests, but their interest
>is no longer changing social orders, enslaving other nations etc. They now care mostly about their own money/resources,
>just like everybody else. Unlike most of world countries, they have much more of a power to protect it.
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>This is perhaps sore point that additionally fuels this bad bad drift.