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The USA saw the chance to take advantage of the hard line communists reaction against Gorbachov and their CIA helped bring about the civilian uprising that led to Gorbachov going in favour of Yeltsin. Since Yeltsin was entirely and solely responsible for Putin's fast track promotion to...

You really are warped. That Chechen war is militarily and politically spoken of as an earlier example of "shock and awe" tactics, with the horrific consequences that brings. It was in response to shocking degrees of Islamic terrorism within Russia. Inexcusable, but the reason...

None, and I have no personal experience of Dmitry Medvedev whatsoever. I simply quote what a number of European leaders have said of him, trusting that their judgment is reasonably good. .

You are completely incapable of seeing anything other than your own extremist two dimentional bigoted view. I've made no reference to the Ukraine conflict in my comment on American attitudes to communism, it was a merely a response to oyster's post. That American attitude and the Ukraine...

Shades of the McCarthyism that shocked us so much. The Americans are incapable of being reasonable towards any form of socialism, Trump being another good example. .

As posted previously, Dmitry Medvedev is the natural successor. He's a liberal with good relations with Europeans. Not a soft touch though, he conducted the second Chechen war as President so capable of tough action when necessary. .

But that doesn't matter while the USA believes they are communist, and they clearly do and have long done. Just as Russia believes NATO is a threat, it doesn't matter if that isn't true. It only matters that Russia believes it. .

That situation is entirely different. Both China and Russia will remain together, politically opposed to the West as I've posted, but not in active war. Russia though will be the same enemy all the time the Americans maintain their phobic hatred of communism and anything hinting at real...

I agree on much of this, perhaps most, but its not all about Putin. He may not last, may be deposed or killed, but that still leaves the fundamental Russian situation regarding the security of their southern fleet which long predates Putin. And still leaves Russian and Ukrainian stubborn...

But as I posted more than once , if they isolate themselves almost entirely from the world economy, which they can do, their internalised economy won't be affected by the world's external one. Anyway, this is getting very tiresome with me constantly having to repeat my replies. The moment...

Not at formal war by agreement, but still in dispute. All the detail on this link .

Why will Russia become more demoralised? That is a reading of the Western propaganda. I think starving, freezing and waterless Ukrainians will become more demoralised first, before enough of the Russian population lose patience. Already they are fighting among themselves rather than...

You confuse impartiality with admiration, I do not admire what Russia is doing or has done in their wars since I am totally opposed to all war. I simply comment on the realities, and one of those is that Russia will not necessarily lose this war. It might, it might not, much depends on the...

That's very offensive, I do not wish he'll win or for a Putin dominated Europe. I've already posted my ideal model for Europe and it is very different from that, leaving Russia wholly marginalised. But I am a realist and impartial, so I post accordingly. You seriously underestimate the...

Now you are going into the realms of fantasy. Just be patient, that's what Putin is being, playing the waiting game and meanwhile smashing infrastructure, rather than suffering heavy losses in street fighting. Even the USA is being patient and playing the waiting game in preference to being...

But only for a very short period of time as I've already posted. Just 20 years ago they were still crawling out of the old USSR days, since the first decade was wasted by the shambles left. We will suffer more since we've had the modern lifestyle for so much longer. If you call not being...

These things dont matter. Can't get a McDonalds in a country that can easily feed itself two or three times over? How terrible! And that economic progress you speak of is Western style. They no longer need it. Isolated as they are being now, they can have their own self contained...

I've already covered that in a previous post. Russia is now out of the international banking system so now needs to convert to isolation. Temporarily that can be simple paper money, ATMs are only a convenience, not an essential. The same for Smartphones, that system easily switched to computers...

I don't need Wikipedia, they are late to the party. I know what is happening there and its background. It's as I said, Islam cannot be practiced there, that is all there is to it. The Uyghurs persist, so what's happening is the result. The Islamic Tartars suffered the same discrimination in...

Nobody really needs a smartphone, a simple mobile phone of the Nokia sort we had in the 2000s is sufficient, and Russia can make those for itself. I'm still using my Nokia 1112 from 2006 as my emergency phone when travelling. .