Great comment, well written with most relevant data pointed out. Russia is repeating problems it had encountered often in its past: Russia is not Moscow and has never been Moscow. Moscow is the most western-looking city in Russia. Vast stretches of Russia itself, which emerges just a few Kilometers outside of Moscow, continues to be a rural giant badly administered by corrupt figures who have elbowed their way to the top by pushing rivals out or having them assassinated or by mysteriously "falling" out of an opened high-rise window. I suggest the hybrid warfare we now conduct must be augmented with a cultural campaign, using any media and other channels, including official political channels necessary, to try to modify the official public campaign to achieve new political realities within Russia. The official self-image of Russia projected by Putin, Kirill and others in power is insanely masochistic and self-mutilating. Russia does not deserve this kind of nonsense.  Russia could be a valuable industrial, economic and cultural partner of the West. As long as the official line lambasts the evil West as its main enemy out to undo Russia, Russia is doomed to sink deeper and deeper in the swamp of its warped view of history and reality.

Great comment, well written with most relevant data pointed out. Russia is repeating problems it had encountered often in its past: Russia is not Moscow and has never been Moscow. Moscow is the most western-looking city in Russia. Vast stretches of Russia itself, which emerges just a few Kilometers outside of Moscow, continues to be a rural giant badly administered by corrupt figures who have elbowed their way to the top by pushing rivals out or having them assassinated or by mysteriously "falling" out of an opened high-rise window. I suggest the hybrid warfare we now conduct must be augmented with a cultural campaign, using any media and other channels, including official political channels necessary, to try to modify the official public campaign to achieve new political realities within Russia. The official self-image of Russia projected by Putin, Kirill and others in power is insanely masochistic and self-mutilating. Russia does not deserve this kind of nonsense.  Russia could be a valuable industrial, economic and cultural partner of the West. As long as the official line lambasts the evil West as its main enemy out to undo Russia, Russia is doomed to sink deeper and deeper in the swamp of its warped view of history and reality.

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