Despite its “failing economy”, “isolation”, “ancient weapons”, “instability” and all the other tired (and ageless: Russia was “failing” in 2005 and in 2000) tropes, time and time again, Moscow confounds, surprises and outmaneuvers Washington. How does it do it?
Moscow has a competent team; Washington has ??? Putin, Medvedev, Ivanov, Shoigu, Lavrov. On the other side… well, you fill in the names. The proof is that Russia has risen from a negligible position in 2000 to one that sets a lot of the agenda.
Moscow stays at home; Washington goes abroad. John Quincy Adams advised the young American republic not to go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. But today…. US special forces deployed to 150 countries in the past three years; hundreds and hundreds of foreign military bases. Not even the most dedicated anti-Russia conspiricist could name 15 countries he thought Russian special forces had been deployed in nor more than a handful of foreign bases. And so, while Moscow sticks to its own interests, Washington sticks its interests into everything and everywhere.
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