Oh, by the way, almost no one in Russia cares a heck about Western public opinion (whatever that is), the anti-Russian commentariat, or Western politicos. It IS time to wake up and smell the coffee.....
The Bush people (read the White House, WSJ, WP, Weekly Standard) badly and wrongly cast Putin's Russia.....and they are reaping Russia's cold indifference in return....politics, after all, is all local.....Putin knows this very well.......
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