Russia has always had a global history. Global history is a bummer. You suffer invasions of all different kinds. And Russia was not defended against them.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The great drama of Russian history has been between its state and society. Put simply, Russia has always had too much state and not enough society.
Everybody has forgotten that Russia helped start the Second World War.
If you look back at the history of the twentieth century, Germany alone had practically destroyed Russia several times.
It's becoming plainer and plainer that what is going on in South America and in South-Eastern Asia is directly related to the war in Russia, for they are all parts of one single Great World War.
Long term I do believe internationally there is a huge misunderstanding of Russia.
Russia will not soon become, if it ever becomes, a second copy of the United States or England - where liberal value have deep historic roots.
With hindsight, we see that the Soviet Union never had a chance of world domination, but we didn't know that then.
Today's Russia is not to be compared with the Soviet Union of back then.
The post-Cold War order in Europe is finished, with Vladimir Putin its executioner. Russia's invasion of Georgia only marked its passing. Russia has emerged as a born-again 19th-century power determined to challenge the intellectual, moral and institutional foundations of the order.
Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.
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