Actively Pro-Russian?

Joseph Stalin died in 1953. It took another four decades for the totalitarian state he engineered to wither, stumble, and follow him into history.

The oligarchic, authoritarian, proto-colonial state that Vladimir Putin has been engineering will also one day have its reckoning. Whether that will hinge on the actuarial reality of Putin’s mortality or not is something only the Fates can know.

But a reckoning will come, because facts, as the Russian proverb has it, are stubborn things (Факты упрямая вещь).