As for Europe, its claims towards Russia are fairly transparently based on fears about energy, unjustified fears at that.

When I returned to Russia in 1994, the Western world and its states were practically being worshipped. Admittedly, this was caused not so much by real knowledge or a conscious choice, but by the natural disgust with the Bolshevik regime and its anti-Western propaganda.

Why can't you understand? The stars fall down now and then. The gaps have to be filled.

One can build the Empire State Building, discipline the Prussian army, make a state hierarchy mightier than God, yet fail to overcome the unaccountable superiority of certain human beings.

Once the fight is on-strike quickly and often.

The central government possesses no plan of finding the way out of this blind alley.

After all, man is a complicated being, why should he be explainable by logic?