Russia Is Losing Friends and Alienating Peoples (Yulia Zhuchkova) from the Moscow Times [in English]
"Moscow will only cooperate with states that accept Russia's economic model of nationalization — a model that has proven ineffective in recent years. Moreover, Moscow ultimately turns its back on any state that does not want to end up like Russia, in what Putin euphemistically described as "the trap of zero growth." That is no way to form an alliance. People become friends when they share common values, interests and world views. ... Russia, on the other hand, seems patently incapable of making friends. It prefers an overbearing and ostentatious show of love — and not even with a real partner, but with an imaginary image of that partner."
Regular readers know that I have been giving a lot of attention to Russia's attempts to "reintegrate" the former Soviet Union and that the only way Putin has been able to give any life to this project is by providing these "allies" with massive subsidies. This article gives all the OTHER WAYS these countries serve basically as the world's most expensive collection of boat anchors. Militarily, economically, in virtually all meaningful ways, they are nothing but resource leeching boat anchors! Good luck with this project, Vladamir!
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