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To: TobagoJack who wrote (175131)	7/19/2021 9:49:41 AM
From: Snowshoe	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217764

re "As to Trump, he may or may not be good for America. Am agnostic. But arguably Biden might be in process to guarantee a credible Trump run come 2024." Trump has a potential successor waiting in the wings... Poll: Without Trump in the race, DeSantis dominates 2024 GOP White House hopefuls politico.com Nationally, the Florida governor’s popularity among Republican voters has skyrocketed.

To: TobagoJack who wrote (175131)	7/19/2021 12:49:06 PM
From: roto	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217764

at the moment.. Skopje, N.Macedonia. I have a new thread on travel as of late June.. "Adventures Beyond the Horizon" Subject 60242 (it may prove informative, at least interesting for the inquisitive) I'll keep this reply Russia related.. I've visited maybe +6 times, and what I write is my own opinion. 1st time.. StPetersburg.. maybe popwise the size of Chicago. young city, +300yrs old. The arts.. 4 theatres, of which, the Mariinsky Theatre is my favorite. I fell in love with opera, ballet.. intermission (champaign) in the accompaniment of a beautiful woman. She said she has seen SwanLake maybe 35- 40 times or so, and each performance was different than the others. The theatres are packed. Of course the Russians have the writer Anton Chekhov (almost religious following) & the composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky. If one is to visit Russia please familiarize yourself with some Russian culture, especially Chekhov. Moscow, I find a but harsh.. that's just me. I've been in a few smaller cities along the Volga... Samara, Dimitrovgrad, even Ulyanovsk, the birthplace of Lenin. The common Russian element.. the saying goes, "a grand facade, an empty courtyard". To fully realize that quote, one should visit. The Russian infrastructure is old & broken.. very unlike what exists in today's China (Angela Merkel understands the fragility of Russia & keeps the lifeline going.. gas exports to Europe). A family I was staying with years ago told me.. things seem normal in the old days.. that is, until they took a tour boat to Norway. People in the West have green lawns. Unbeknownst to them long ago, Russians were living the Soviets lies. For food, I learned to like green salads at 7am.. the best whiskey, bootleg made from beer. Beer served in Kiosks 24/7, 7-11 cents or so, 1/2ltr bottles. Drunks kept alive after they lost their state work when the SovietUnion broke up. I liked Kruschev long ago & Gorbachev most recently.. my learned & on- going impressions of these two. I do not like Putin.. does not matter, maybe he is good for the stability of Russia. They need it there. One other thing can be said.. thanks to Ronald Reagan, the Russians exited Afghanistan much sooner than they should have while bleeding in the stalemated death of that place. & stupid us, we jumped back in. Outside of Russia, I visited Donetsk, in the Donbass Region of Ukraine (the woman I was seeing taught classical piano.. she is of so- called "White Russian" ancestry. Stalin's Bolsheviks took both her grandfathers into the backyard of where I was sitting and blew their brains out.. 1937).. also, Sevastopol & Yalta in the Crimea (Donetsk, Donbass Region & the Crimea, recently all invaded by Putin's thugs). On my long visit to Budva, Montenegro earlier this year, Russian money is "laundered", that city overbuilt with new construction, empty housing. Montenegro people, for the most part, are not very well paid by the Russians. There are the animosities of being. .