When I graduated from the UW in 1993 …

  1. I believed the USA and RUSSIA were natural historic allies.
  2. I felt with the end of the cold war this could happen, and together the world might change.
  3. I was naive.

We gutted the rump state of the USSR, and tore out its innards and posted a drunkard (Yeltsin) at the helm. And now we’re annoyed that Russia doesn’t fucking trust us.