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To: greenspirit who wrote (762525)	5/7/2022 11:49:07 AM
From: skinowski	Respond to of 793712

China seems ambivalent - but if you read any of Putin’s writings - or listen to his speeches - he’s a huge Anti-Communist. The USSR fell apart in a nearly bloodless revolution. All of them deserve lots of credit. Instead, the Western world chose to remain stuck in a time machine - and ended up making them enemies. ————————- If you can find the full version of this article, please post it. Couldn’t get it from behind the paywall. foreignaffairs.com Excerpt: Losing RussiaThe Costs of Renewed Confrontation By Dimitri K. Simes November/December 2007 At a meeting of the Russian State council in December 2007, Kremlin Archives. Share Save Faced with threats from al Qaeda and Iran and increasing instability in Iraq and Afghanistan, the United States does not need new enemies. Yet its relationship with Russia is worsening by the day. The rhetoric on both sides is heating up, security agreements are in jeopardy, and Washington and Moscow increasingly look at each other through the old Cold War prism. Although Russia's newfound assertiveness and heavy-handed conduct at home and abroad have been the major causes of mutual disillusionment, the United States bears considerable responsibility for the slow disintegration of the relationship as well. Moscow's maladies, mistakes, and misdeeds ….."………. And this is the Wiki article on Simes en.m.wikipedia.org