Now that a new tsar has been legitimized in Russia, and Alexei Navalny, his most formidable opponent is in Germany recovering from a “mysterious” poison, I can write with certainty that nothing ever changes in Russia.
We can trust the Russians to be Russians. They have been bullies from the day Muscovy emerged from the swamps of the Eurasian North.
“It has been difficult for the Western mind to comprehend the Russian philosophy of making conquests of her neighbors a way of life,” wrote Indiana Congressman William G. Bray in his 1963 book “Russian Frontiers: From Muscovy to Khrushchev.” He observed: “Russian aggression during the last five centuries has devoured 46 races, speaking 61 different languages, and her appetite remains unquenched.”