sorry ivan that's not true at all. putin's failure as a diplomat, failure as a military leader, and overall failure as a world leader has put russia into its current position of being internationally humiliated by cossacks with islam sweeping across russia. the greatest irony is that ukrainians currently have a stronger sense of self than anyone in russia. i don't even know what they use the name russia, they have no cultural continuity of the ancient rus people. they are a largely multi-cultural and multi-racial society that is strongly against any concept of racial group identity.
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