All right, I am sorry for having been a bit negative lately. I just really need a holiday.
But let me try and turn to peacekeeping and build a better world.
The Russians are largely misunderstood in the West, at least to my mind.
The thing is, they are actually not so different from us, as we may think
Russians are essentially the eastern Scandinavian expansion, whereas the UK and the US is the western expansion.
The prairie and cowboy mentality that is in the US, has its close counterpart in the Siberian steppes as the Cossacks.
Where the west has adopted a western church, that is firstly the Catholic faith and later the Protestant church. The Russians have the Eastern Orthodox church.
Yet, in terms of temperament, they are just as much cowboys as the Americans.
If you provoke them, they draw their own six shooter.
They don’t bow to anyone, just as the Americans.
So making a deal with them, you need to treat them as you would treat another cowboy. With respect, and still look him directly in the eye. They respect a man, and the word of and honest opponent.
Mr. Putin is a warrior and a man of courage. He is not a corrupt.
So, as with any boys, you need to find a place of peace. Try to communicate without getting to a place of war.
G-d bless the peace we can find.
