One wonders: what if we could just rid the whole antagonism thing between Europe and Russia and really get an axis going. Perhaps there already is an axis and I just don't know about it because it's easier to be afraid of Ruskies and no one tells me anything anyway.
Rambling. Signing off.
Good thing you made it a diary melo.
we had a window of opportunity after the fall of communism, and blew it royally, add bush's obsolete recycled recent cold war style posturings and the lack of any success in nation-building anywhere else nato is involved, and now we have a situation....
after centuries of pomp and circumstance covering up injustice while piously pretending to sound virtuous, putin inc. come off as pragmatic and tersely refreshing, though i'm glad he's not running europe!
i trust him more than i would any repug to keep a cool head. The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it. Chinese Proverb.