Meaning no disrespect, but you sound like a parrot. 'Murderous kleptocracy' and everything else you throw, these are the kind of mindless soundbites you hear from every rabid Russophobe quoted on BBC or CNN. I'm not even gonna argue with the legitimacy of what you say--some or all of it may well be true. It's the fact that you say these things without the least irony, as if the governments of the West are not just as bad. The UK government colluded in the killing of lawyers and civil rights activists in the north of Ireland, and is guilty of the worst kind of cronyism, evident in the news this very moment. Are you therefore willing to concede that the UK gov is a 'murderous kleptocracy'? And we don't even need to get into the US...