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Would you if you were an Ambassador after Putin says he won't? I wouldn't and would be wondering "When will I get handed a Declaration of War that I have to deliver to a world leader before the shooting starts?"

Yes, but we've gone off the rails and the mods don't like that.

Ho Chi Minh actually respected the US a great deal and wanted the French to leave. We wouldn't give him the time of day and backed France. The Soviets said "we'll help" and Communism just sorta came along for the ride.

Vietnam seems to be slowly pulling it off. They got rid of Pol Pot and restored a monarchy after telling the US to "fuck off". They also hate the Chinese. If anyone can pull it off, it's them.

Possibly, but the USSR lacked the "everyone has an equal voice" traditions needed to make it work. Even countries which do have those traditions routinely screw it up because lots of people can't accept that they're way isn't necessarily the best way to go.

Oh dear, that's not good.

I think you're judging him too harshly. He wasn't Yeltsin drunk driving a superpower. The US Secret Service intercepted a partially naked Boris Yeltsin on Pennsylvania Ave. while he was drunk and looking for a phone so that he could order a Pizza Hut pizza for delivery to just outside of the...

He spoke Cassandra truths: you are right but no one will believe you because the truth sounds like it's an enormously unbelievable lie.

I respect him because he tried to make the USSR better and more free and open (Glasnost and Perestroika).

May he rest in peace.