Matthew Yglesias

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

So to channel my one Russian friend — she says Russia is the successor state to pre-WW1 Russia and that it’s absurd the west took advantage of a domestic revolt against Soviet autocracy to decide the internal administrative divisions of the USSR’s fake federalism as sacrosanct. — PolitiTweet.org

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

That the USA treated Yeltsin-era Russia as a defeated enemy rather than a partner democracy — in fact worse than we treated Germany and Japan when they were defeated enemies, because we needed them as allies against Russia. — PolitiTweet.org