Re: Russia's Potemkin power

You would, but you are a gullible twit. More perceptive observers note that Russia invaded Ukraine, and NATO is merely supporting the Ukrainian efforts to repel that invasion.

We all know why Russia invaded the Ukraine - the country was being run well enough by Zelensky and his ministers to highlight how corrupt and incompetent Putin's regime is.

The best is the enemy of the good - though Putin's Russian regime doesn't even make it to mediocre.

And humiliated people do lash out.

Who would want the bits of Russia immediately adjacent to China?

Depends on what's in the ground, just like in Eastern Ukraine (Lithium, in that case). Putin doesn't give a damn if the next door neighbor makes him look bad, he wants the Lithium for when the world finally stops buying his oil.

He really wants the Russian Empire back and he wants to be czar. He hates "the west."

Like in Cuba, the dictators are happy, even eager, to push out the troublemakers, the thinkers, and leave a loyal, patriotic, poor, stupid population.

Trump seems to have the same game plan for the US.

Let's hope the military officers have been stealing parts of their nukes, as they have been stealing everything else.

I worked in the USSR for a while, in a facility that was still under construction. People stole everything... "it doesn't belong to anybody."

Other people just played cards all day in the basement.