For People Who Still ...

 ... do not get it. And on Vladimir Putin's 73rd Birthday--listen and read captions attentively. 

That's the foundation of Russia's grand strategy, this is for those who continue to exercise illusions about Russia and Russian people owing something to someone first. No, Russia learned her lessons and acts in her own interests first. Another matter, because of what modern Russia represents--it resonates around the globe, and, as is expected, there are very many people globally who view Russia's military and economic superpowerdom not as a benefit for Russian people but primarily as the tool to be utilized, in those people's opinions, for "better" purposes. Well, guess what--I have news for those people and they are not going to like it. 

The MAIN reason why Russians overwhelmingly support Vladimir Putin (I have yet to explain those "rumors"--an utter BS--about Putin's power being "shaky") because they recognized in him themselves--this is an immense synergetic power any modern national leader would only dream about, maybe Viktor Orban, but the scale is much smaller. But you cannot explain this to all kinds of Western "analysts" and "scholars" who failed miserably in studying the real world and especially Russia. You cannot fix it now. Too little, too late. But there is another aspect of all that--yet again Russia produced a titan and combined West hates him the same way it hated Stalin, because of the scale of a man, and you can bet your ass on that--they are now desperately trying to find another Solzhenitsyn.