TC----check out the ongoing comments between myself and Bill M over on the blog side concerning Russian nationalism under the Open Letter to Obama.
It is deep- it is there- and we in the West have basically not seen it nor maybe not wanted to see it in our moves towards soft power.
Bill had some interesting comments concerning the ethnicity (Russian) of the citizens currently inside the Russian Federation which he pointed out is relatively high for a country and then look at the enclaves he is going after and it also includes Finland as Russian nationalism has been preaching against the 1917 Finnish agreement.
He is in fact chasing the Czarist dreams of an all Russian empire--nothing more nothing less and he has a military force able to implement with short lines of communication and after 13 years of chasing jihadi's NATO has nothing to counter with.
The messaging concerning Breedlove's coming back to NATO today was to the point---"we do not trust what you are telling us" about the alleged exercise---when one hears the term "lack of transparency"---that is not a good sign in the world of power politics.
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