The Best Analysis That I Have Read So Far On How Russia Views The Abandonment Of U.S. Missile Defense In Eastern Europe

Kremlin Spin Machine Goes into Overdrive -- The Danger Room

Somewhere in an alternate reality, retired KGB colonel Vladimir Putin sips tea in a St. Petersburg kitchen, wearing a knockoff Adidas tracksuit, sandals and socks. It’s September: Time, perhaps, for a mushroom-picking trip out at the dacha?

But no, we inhabit a different universe. It’s September, which means Prime Minister Putin is entertaining influential foreigners at a lavish mansion outside Moscow. The Valdai discussion forum was back in town.

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My Comment: I am a product of both cultures. My parents are Russian, but I was born in Canada growing up in a Russian environment. Nathan Hodge who wrote the above article is not Russian .... but he definitely captures the mind and spirit of how Russians think. Eastern Europeans understand this mindset, but the problem is that President Obama and the White House are thinking like liberal Americans.