FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE; "There’s the perspective that Putin brought prosperity and pride compared to the 90’s. And that doesn’t fit the West, which was quite comfy with a drunk Boris Yeltsin. After all, we were able to import beautiful Russian brides. And we were happy to see the mafia run Russia because it would make America’s own predatory capitalism look good. Russia and America have always been like yin and yang. NATO military advances in Eastern Europe forces Russia into an arms race, and that weakens Russia. And it also makes Putin strong."
