Subj : Re: Monkey Business
To   : Mike Powell
From : Jeff Thiele
Date : Mon May 23 2022 18:06:44

On 23 May 2022, Mike Powell said the following...
 MP> I think that Vladimir went rogue for one of two reasons.
 MP> (2) more likely, he got tired of how the West was always demonizing
 MP> Russia and talking about them like they were still the USSR, got
 MP> paranoid, and decided Russia needed some buffer states to protect them
 MP> from the West.
 MP> 
 MP> #2 has historical precident as Moscow has created buffer states before to
 MP> protect from interference/invasions.  The USSR did it, and a Czar or two
 MP> did it before them.

Well, that's certainly an interesting way to make people stop comparing
Russia to the USSR.

Jeff.

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