There is an old Russian Proverb [Гроша не стоит, а глядит рублем] which says that, He regarded himself as ton of gold and was only an ounce of brass. Ambassador McFaul’s provocatively interesting and incisive first-person retrospective diplomatic look at the evolution of Putin’s Crimean gambit strongly suggests that the high-price of Putin’s short-term domestic political victories will be the long-term strategic geopolitical defeat for his vainglorious dreams of a 21st Century Novo Russian Empire! Only time and the geostrategic reactions chosen by the rest of the world to both current and future ‘Russian Realpolitik’ gambits in the Ukraine will definitively determine whether that Master Siloviki, Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, ultimately captures Fabergé’s bejeweled and golden Russian Imperial egg, or if Gollum-like he is consigned endlessly to grasp for but never reach the all too precious but elusive burnished-brass Novo Russia Imperialist ring!
Posted on: Tue, 05 Aug 2014 20:48:23 +0000
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