Moreover, the accomplishment of Russia's aims has been greatly simplified by the fact that we have heretofore offered the world no practical antidote for the Russian poison.
At least Russia and China didn't call us names when we smiled sweetly at America.
Regimes like the one in Russia are stabilized by the fact that they have no ideology. There is really no ideological means to attack them.
Stalin is the most popular figure in all of Russia.
The problem is if Russia is organising exercises - and not being transparent about what exactly these exercises are about - it creates suspicions as to their objectives.
Russia is not engaged in a fight against Daesh in Syria. On the contrary, they are actually targeting moderate opposition.
The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.
While the specifics of Russia's interference in the 2016 American election remain unclear, no one doubts that Moscow has built a robust technological arsenal for waging cyberattacks.
In the mid-1990s, when Russia was undergoing a construction boom, I entered the real estate development market.
I went to Vassar College for undergraduate and studied literature and queer theory, and all of the above. And then I took a Fulbright scholarship in Russia.
Russia is not a friendly character on the world stage.
The noises Russia makes on the world stage are deeply misogynist, homophobic and racist.