Y’know, buddy. It does hurt.

I’ve had so many late night vodka fueled conversations with Russians about all of this stuff. Many times I felt like a missionary trying to bring light to the heathens. So many times I’ve heard the same line: we don’t need your “democracy,” we will find our own unique Russian way. Eventually, the one thing that we could always agree on and part as friends was to thank God that Americans and Russians have never fought each other directly.

I sincerely pray that it never comes to that, but, at the end of the day the sheep and the goats will go their seperate ways.