You haven’t been discussing it with “the West”, you’ve been debating with Westerners in this comment thread, Westerners who have studied history and political science and current affairs. We understand that Russia is a modern industrial nation-state but that it’s also a kleptocracy. They might stop scrambling if for once they gave someone who wasn’t an autocrat or a thief a chance for 8 or more years.
It’s not that you haven’t been clear, it’s that you haven’t sufficiently supported your “paradigm.”
You’ve made that clear. Peace in for our time.
I’m basing my mass condemnation of Il Douche on 30+ years of watching him operate as America’s foremost public confidence artist and narcissist. Nothing about today’s presser changed my view.
