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Russian People Really Don't Like It When Somebody Does Horrible Things In Russia, And Then Can Calmly Go Travel To Another Country And Spend Time There. And This Is What Needs To Be Done: The Russian People Need To Be Told This, Because In Today's World, Just Doing Something Is Not Enough. You've Got To Tell About It, Too. If You've Done Something And Haven't Told About It, It's As Good As If You Hadn't Done It At All.

I Knew President Yeltsin Well. He Would Never Have Tolerated Government Officials Demonstratively Showing Off The Millions They Acquired Through Corruption, The Way It's Done Today.

People Expect Some Kinds Of Decisions From Putin That Will Help Them See Their Own Future. A Significant Part Of The People That He Relies On Are Quite Content With Him Telling Them That Nothing Is Going To Change. But That Part Of The Elite That Does Want To See Some Changes And Improvements Are Going To Expect Him To, In His Next Term, Bring Russia Back Into The Club Of The Great Powers.

People Take The Lazy Way Out, And Do Not Regard Putin And The Kremlin As The Real Enemy. They Create A Long But Erroneous Chain In Their Heads. Putin Is The Leader Of Russia. Putin Does X, Therefore Russia Is Doing X, And Russia Is Our Enemy. And So, We Introduce Sanctions, For Example, Against Russia.

Part Of The People Here Are Interested In The Same Thing That Putin Is Interested In: Putin Wants To Have America As An Enemy. Part Of Americans Want To Have Russia As An Enemy. It's Advantageous. The Other Part Of The People Are Just Ordinary People. And These People Project Onto Big Objects The Kind Of Relations That They Have With Small Objects In Their Everyday Lives.