... MI6. Fully))
As he stands beside Xi, Putin is merely posing as a superpower leader. True, he has a nuclear arsenal. But Russia’s only remaining international allies are rogue nations like North Korea and Iran. China, whom Putin claims as a strategic partner, has refused to send weapons and offers only the most guarded of diplomatic support to the war. Russia’s economy is smaller than Spain’s, and is in increasing trouble as world energy prices sink. And the army fighting Putin’s war – which in Russia is officially not a war but a “special military operation” – is composed of expendables recruited from the country’s prisons and poorest regions. Putin and the elderly KGB men who form his inner circle may believe that they have restored Russia to the prestige of the USSR at the height of its power. But all they are really demonstrating is how far Russia has fallen from those glory days, no longer a world power but rather a vassal to the true superpower of China.
Here is the cretin who wrote this:
Owen Matthews (born December 1971) is a British writer, historian and journalist. His first book, Stalin's Children, was shortlisted for the 2008 Guardian First Book Award, the Orwell Prize for political writing, and France's Prix Médicis Etranger. His books have been translated into 28 languages. He is a former Moscow and Istanbul Bureau Chief for Newsweek. Owen Matthews was born in London in 1971. His father was Mervyn Matthews, a British expert on Soviet society. His mother Lyudmila Bibikova was born in Kharkiv, Soviet Ukraine, and he speaks Russian as a native speaker. Matthews's maternal grandfather, Boris Bibikov, was a Communist Party supporter. Matthews studied Modern History at Oxford University.
An Exhibit A of British "intellectual" class. Poor sod, to waste so much time at Oxford degree mill and gain no actual skills and knowledge in anything. Retard is a classic British sore loser who uses verbiage as a pain relief for the suffering of being born British. I wonder if this dude has basic arithmetic skills. I know, he is British--for the banking and service "economy" math and physics are not critical, but did he think ever that if Spain, whose economy allegedly larger than Russia's, decides to produce MC-21 and the line of jet engines ranging from PD-8 to PD-35 or put up there 32 GLONASS satellites and maintain them, how fast Spain's economic bottom will fall off?
