Whenever I think of the Russkies I think of what a friend told me long ago which was that all the railroads of the world have the same gauge except for the Russkies because they wanted to make it harder to be invaded. I thought I would lead my post with that but I went to the wiki first and it turns out not to be true. Too bad, it was such a good story.
I did remember correctly however that it was Winston Churchill who called Russia a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. My take on it is that they came very late to the party of western civ and between the czars and the commissars never quite got the hang of it.
I was very disappointed that the Russian people were so gung ho for the war, but not that long ago the American people were pretty gung ho about going into Iraq. When your country goes to war for whatever reason and your boys are dying over there, being against the war makes you a traitor in the eyes of your countrymen.
Once the music dies down and the boys come back in boxes, people begin to think why are we there, and hopefully as we did in Iraq and the Russkies (and us too come to think of it) did in Afghanistan, and begin to bring their boys home.
Always risky to interpret a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma, but I think it is all Putin, the canny KGB guy who has devised a situation where nobody near him dares to put a bullet in his head and nobody willing to put a bullet in his head is anywhere close enough to do the deed.
It makes my head hurt too.
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