M.N.: The West did not lose Russia. Russia, it appears, lost The West for now: tragically, blindly, in her "sleepwalking trance" induced by her historical and resurgent, revengeful criminal imperial mentality and the criminal predatory political personalities of her current leaders... | What we say in the UK doesn’t matter — despite the Russian bombers off Portsmouth. The same is true for the rest of Europe. Only America, as leader of the West, counts. So is President Obama, who leaves office in January 2017, likely to announce the U.S. will work to achieve George H.W. Bush’s post-Cold War vision of a Europe allied to Russia? It’s unlikely: PETER McKAY: "How we lost our chance for peace with Putin"
Conversation: Russian President Vladimir Putin (left) and Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu (right) react during a wreath laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier near the Kremlin this morning M.N.: The West did not lose Russia, it was ready to embrace her, sincerely and trustingly, some minor mistakes and miscalculations of 1990-s notwithstanding. Russia, it appears, lost The West for now: tragically, blindly, in her "sleepwalking trance" induced by her historical and resurgent, revengeful criminal imperial mentality and the criminal predatory political personalities of her current leaders, not necessarily by those in the official government (including some military leaders) who might be sober minded and reasonable enough, but by the shadowy ruling clan of the nouveau riche mafia oligarchs and their puppets, with "mad czar" Putin as their chief "The Thief-In-Law". That's where the main incompatibility lies. His facial expression on