re: #257 Decatur Deb

As early as the mid-80s, we were talking, not about the destruction of the SU, but how to ‘soft-land’ it. Considering that it came down without mass slaughter, the GHWB State Department didn’t do too badly.

The country fell apart under its own inertia, a lot of major questions were left unsettled. It just means that the mass slaughter was just delayed by a few decades.

There are millions of ethnic Russians stuck outside the borders of Russia, not just in the Ukraine. They have lost their status as a privileged, even pampered majority and are a breeding ground for resentment, just the sort of thing that all too easily erupts into armed conflict.