WNU Editor: A must read piece from the Asia Times. A commentary by Spengler provides an inside glimpse in the minds of Russian leaders. I tend to agree with them. When I go to Russia I always will get into a discussion with the people there on how the Russian people are declining as a distinct ethnic group. This impacts them on every level ... and they know it.
From Asia Times
On the night of November 22, 2004, then-Russian president - now premier - Vladimir Putin watched the television news in his dacha near Moscow. People who were with Putin that night report his anger and disbelief at the unfolding "Orange" revolution in Ukraine. "They lied to me," Putin said bitterly of the United States. "I'll never trust them again." The Russians still can't fathom why the West threw over a potential strategic alliance for Ukraine. They underestimate the stupidity of the West.
American hardliners are the first to say that they feel stupid next to Putin. Victor Davis Hanson wrote on August 12 [1] of Moscow's "sheer diabolic brilliance" in Georgia, while Colonel Ralph Peters, a columnist and television commentator, marveled on August 14 [2], "The Russians are alcohol-sodden barbarians, but now and
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