Mitch McConnell tells U.S. to 'wake up' to threat of Russia on Ukraine war anniversary

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87. Great analysis. I hadn't realized the '90s was so traumatic...

to the nation and its peoples. Having looked at it from a western perspective, and maybe even a pro-Gorbechev one, him and his wife seemed to be modern and sophisticated reformers and a match for western leaders. I didn't understand why he was so unpopular — well, perhaps I do. His reforms led to the dismantling of the Soviet Union and the nation's sense of self as a world power equal to the US and the west.

Then as you say they had to work thru the chaos of Yeltsin and the other pretenders, the gangs andd oligarchs, all to get to Putin, unfortunately, who imposed order out of the disorder.

But isn't Dugin in his ear preaching the destiny of Russia is an empire that reaches from the Baltics to Vladivostok — the nation's eleven times zone span not being enough?