I read, I watch, I observe. :))
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I hear you. Putin is one of those very rare cases where the man personally is very modest and wants no cult of personality - you see that in many small and large ways. For example, when you fly into the US as you walk out through customs you'll see portraits of the US President and, in places like California, the governor. You don't see any of that in Russia. There aren't portraits of Putin hanging in schoolrooms and there's no naming of schools or other facilities using his name.

He wants a str…

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I'm an American living in Russia and it never fails to amaze me how the West completely underestimates the truly huge support for Putin at all levels of Russian society, from the grass roots of ordinary people to the professional elite and upper middle class and to the truly powerful. A large majority admiring Putin is one of the genuinely unifying phenomena in Russia that crosses ethnicity, age, and educational and economic status.

So it's extremely difficult to come up with scenarios where suc…

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That talk of Borodai was chilling. I know this is odd, since I am a retired US infantryman. But my thoughts are with my Russian brothers in the field. Victory against the Nazi's and a quick return to your loved ones. I wish I was a praying man, but I can only extend my hopes.

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Thank you for a calm report - You will have noticed that the trolls are very active on this subject

It is part of the MSM propaganda campaign you describe

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Either candidate is a "Forest Gump" so all you need to listen for is the toilet of history flushing the combined west through the S bend to irrelevance.

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Or it could be a faint just to make the Russians panic and strike first. Your stunts and disinfo noise are not going to modify Russias industrial war approach. Suck it up.

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No, I'm a real 🧌

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Dear Andrey, please check some basic literature about the Nazism, their symbols, statements and psychopathology.