Russians are certainly stubborn. I love 'em, but...
They support a doofus ex-KGB Resident sent off to Dresden (the boondocks) because he was crap at his job.
They support an ex-Deputy Mayor of St Petersburg who demanded 25% of every council contract.
They supported a budding autocrat in the 2000s and 1990s who ordered 64+ Russian journalists killed in increasingly extravagant ways while the (then) independent Russian media documented it.
They support a kleptocrat who is stealing their profits in the brief time left for the fossil fuel industry in Russia.
They support an international organised crime network run out of offshore banks like the Bank of Cyprus with links to ex-KGB buddies of the ex-KGB Russian President and the current US Secretary for Commerce (and long-time Trump confidant), Wilbur Ross.
They support a KGB Greatest Hits series of hits of Russian dissidents in hits with "ex-USSR" modus operandi in neon lights.
They let the wealth of their country be stolen, just like by the USSR elite in their dashas.
And they now let a numbnuts Russian President overplay his hand terribly. He thought the West would cave because a bunch of geriatric idiots bought his BS online, and moved forward his plan to re-create the USSR and move into the Baltics, and Eastern and Central Europe.
Not going to happen. The boys at the St Petersburg Troll Factory can play that banjo until the cows come home, but it ain't gonna happen.
