Posted by sigismund on March 19, 2018, at 19:22:39
In reply to Re: Hi there friends » sigismund, posted by beckett2 on March 18, 2018, at 3:19:04
>I've just finished Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible https://tinyurl.com/y8e9hdsu. Before that, and unfortunately timely, A Very Expensive Poison https://tinyurl.com/y9n2l2ge. My approach is to start in the Nineties and work backwards and forwards, otherwise I lack context. The Future Is History https://tinyurl.com/ycan3f7h is in the queue.
It could easily have been so much better. Eastern Europe and especially the former Tsarist Empire was obviously going to be sensitive to Russia. They swallowed the unification of Germany. Trying to put Georgia in NATO must have been the last straw. They are ringed by US bases. In Uzbekistan as well? I read that was where the soviet poisons were developed. I don't know why governments don't practice more restraint and care in their actions. Most of our (whatever that means) problems are of our own devising. Russia has never had competent democratic non-authoritarian leadership.
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