strong root system of culture and values

Those criminals had delusions that they were Europeans. But they're not. They are Russians (albeit second-class Russians speaking a degenerate dialect). They need a strong leader, like Russians have always had. Starting with Batu Khan.

No, what pisses me off is that he's been preparing for this for at least twenty years. Which means that any and all kinds of appeasement wouldn't have changed much.

Putin is a great advertisement for any other system of government than dictatorship.

_{It is rightly acknowledged that people of faith have no monopoly of virtue - Queen Elizabeth II}