> We can only hope that [....] The opposition (including but not limited to the Democrats) have been playing the wishful-thinking card for so long that the card's stuck to their hands. It's a form of learned helplessness.* What worries me is that Vlad has managed to replicate this serf mentality in the Land of the Free™ as well as in the once-and-future USSR. Side issue: The KGB and/or GRU were alleged in the aforementioned TV programme to have bought or otherwise compromised "hundreds" of US businessmen in the 1970s. It just happened that it was with Agent Orange that they hit the jackpot, and ended up defoliating the US body politic. (Those of a conspiracist cast of mind might wonder if those going after Hunter Biden knew from experience not only where to look, but also what to look for; but I couldn't possibly comment.) * I include myself here.
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