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Originally Posted by Oberon
Oh that, yeah, well that's part of human nature sadly. A desire to be King Rat at the top of the ladder, of course, you don't get to appreciate the view from the top of the ladder because you're too busy trying to stop one of the other rats from pulling you off the ladder.  |
What is not about ego...ask Freud.
Yet when it comes to Putin I suppose he has some vision about future Russia , similar to how China is run.
In cases like this it is difficult to be concerned about every single citizen although the end result may benefit the whole nation...
Regular Russians are in a nothing to lose situation in this regard , they had been at the bottom including the ego.
In the west in more about here and right now.
Russians who don't have much tradition of democracy look at this western , sometimes schizophrenic behavior with skepticism.