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Realpolitik
Calling to mind Diane’s post, below, about The World’s affinity for Barack Obama, there is this bit of texture: “Russians like Putin and Obama, polls find.”
Russia has not, as yet, fully regressed to its erstwhile infelicities. But its posture—driven principally by the strong personage of Putin and his effect on the bearing of the Russian people—is close, and closing. “Pollsters,” Reuters reports, “for state-run VTsIOM found that if Russians could vote in U.S. elections, the Republicans would get little support, though most of those queried did no give a view…Obama would receive 27 percent support and McCain 6 percent, VTsIOM found, in the September 6-7 poll of 1,600 Russians.”
I dare say Americans would prefer that someone a bit weaker were at the helm of Russia, too.
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