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To: TobagoJack who wrote (185539)	3/19/2022 9:24:36 PM
From: TobagoJack	1 Recommendation Recommended By marcher Respond to of 217752

1) Serious question about #Ukraine. Keep in mind this “war” is taking place inside a nation with widespread open internet and cell phone networks. pic.twitter.com/uqMonvN0OA — TheLastRefuge (@TheLastRefuge2) March 17, 2022

To: TobagoJack who wrote (185539)	3/20/2022 2:38:00 AM
From: Snowshoe	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217752

Historical perspective... Putin’s Thousand-Year War The reasons for his anti-Western enmity stretch back over Russia’s entire history—and they will be with us for a long time. March 12, 2022, 6:00 AM By Michael Hirsh, a senior correspondent at Foreign Policy. Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a ceremony marking the 1,030th anniversary of the adoption of Christianity by Prince Vladimir, the leader of Kievan Rus, in Moscow on July 28, 2018. ALEXANDER ZEMLIANICHENKO/AFP via Getty Images Whether or not Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine ends any time soon, what is certain to continue is the Russian president’s abiding hatred and mistrust of the United States and other Western powers, which he believes left him no choice but to launch an unprovoked war. It’s not just Putin. These views are shared by the many Russian elites who have supported him for two decades. They have also been a chief reason for Putin’s domestic popularity—at least until recently, when his invasion ran into fierce resistance—even as he has turned himself into a dictator and Russia into a nearly totalitarian state reminiscent of the Soviet Union at its worst. It is an enmity worth probing in depth, if only to understand why Washington and the West almost certainly face another “long twilight struggle” with Moscow—in former U.S. President John F. Kennedy’s words—rivaling the 45-year Cold War. Full story: foreignpolicy.com