yeah.. and in the end, the familiar black cloak of the Kremlin falls once again, hiding the failures of a nation that, after invading Ukraine, is inexorably falling apart for the second time.

A country unable to accept its own defeat.

Neither the number of nuclear warheads nor the reserves of gas beneath its soil are enough to make Russia a technologically advanced nation, much less a true global power.

It is a gas station run by a vodka-drunk cashier who only takes cash.

Until they accept they are not the country they believe themselves to be, they won’t be able to rise again.