“You are kidding, right? This Putin-vision is a scam. Russia is hardly a prospering state. This is all a means to promote the acceptance of total authority wielded by Putin.”
BINGO! Yet look at how many people fall for it even here at FR. It’s sad. . . and a little worrisome.
Putin doesn’t care one bit about ISIS. He cares about keeping Assad in power. He wants access to Syrian ports on the Mediterranean. That is it. It is classic Soviet doctrine, to mitigate choke points bottling up the Russian Navy.
Still, we should have such a program in this nation as well. The president could use the Bully Pulpet to focus on things that need to be done. The bottom line—the roads got fixed in Russia.
We know what they area
“BINGO! Yet look at how many people fall for it even here at FR. It’s sad. . . and a little worrisome.”
The U.S. today isn’t what it used to be in the 1980’s or the 1990’s. So, people admire bits and pieces they see even in or from Russia. Can’t blame Putin for everything.