“We” need a strong Russia?
Only a catastrophically ignorant person such as yourself, Chuck, or a typical Russian droid like Natalia, could possibly imagine that. The world needs a weak Russia. Whatever virtues as individuals Russians may have, and I would never deny them, these are incidental to their national culture: collectively, they are a thug nation, and one can only hope that long-term US/West European policy is to reduce Russia to Great Russia, entangled with the excitable Islamic principalities/khagantes around its periphery, as Putin’s strategists fantasize. This, of course, is probably not happening, not least because of its impracticability.
Nevertheless, for at least a century it has been common for the West to misunderstand Russia as a European power with a messy Siberian appendage, probably because it’s inhabited most publicly by white people. The truth is rather the opposite of that: Russia is a typical Asiatic conquest society that adapted Orthodox civilization in order to “be like big men to South which have buildink and chanties like what prettier than KEEV.” That’s pretty much it. Suck it up, you deluded Russophiles.
