I support Russia and wish them the best , but truth have to be told..
Putin is the only one to blame for the mediocre influence Russia have over Europe..
For 20-21 years ,since putin came to power , he have been complaining ,complaining and complaining
about the unfair west.. and have been doing NOTHING ,to change the western order for one that respect russia interest in the world. putin and lavrov complains and complains and complains ,
how unfair is the west.. (an they are right.. they already have been saying that for 20 years)
but they do NOTHING to improve things in their favor.. zero . and you will see why..
Putin complains about the western hostile system towards , russia but why Russia don’t create his own system then? and this is the core of all russian problems. is a leadership problem. an influence problem.. the leader of the world order is america ,whether we like it or not doesn’t matter ,they lead international order , and top major influencer of the banking system , that have a significant control over unite nations ,that controls internet , controls the semiconductor industry , leads the world in entertainment and in advance technology too and lead the world in space explorations.. and so and so and so on.. even the internet is controlled by americans.. so putin’s Russia since he came to power have not moved a single finger ,to challenge the american business hegemony ,in the civilian world.. it means that Putin vision of russia economic development have been incredibly short sighted and outdated.. all that putin have been promoting as “Development” of russia are cosmetical and symbolical achievements like be the best in sports.. and to break world records in gas station supply.. and create the most powerful nukes.. so how putin expect to be taken seriously by europe if he runs russia is so backward and outdated way???? as a gas station? all that putin have been doing to “influence europe” is become a monopoly in energy , the saudi arabia of asia..
and this is why putin find itself totally disrespected by the most developed nations in the west.. Russian culture ends at russian borders.. while the american culture covers the entire world..
so it is putin the one to blame.. unfortunately as long putin is president there , russia will continue being disrespected its interest.. and when a nation is disrespected is because lacks of leadership ,lacks of influence thats it.. if putin had any clue of what he is doing , he develops russia looking to the past… to the good old soviet times.. and the good old russian empire times and this is wrong ,he need to modernize russia ,reinvent russia in a new and better and modern way .. this means that if russia wants europe to listen russia.. is not europe the one that needs to change .. bur Russia is instead.. he needs to stop following the american world.. the american internet ,stop depending of american business and follow the example of china. and challenge american business leadership in the world.. nothing is more attractive for any nation , than business Success ,that nation modernization.. nothing is more attractive than to lead the world into future development ,, this is why china is doing.. in some areas first.. but this is where they are aiming..and becoming an alternative to the american high tech business world.. this is why the west fears more china than russia.. because the only thing putin have to influence the west is gas discounts.. and later putin don’t understand why all russian neighbors prefer to join europe ,than outdated primitive orthodox russia. so is a leadership problem ,the reason why europe don’t listen.. nations follows leaders.. and russia is not a leader ,but a follower of the americans.. china in the other hand is starting to lead and to do what no other nation in the world ever have done.. challenge american leadership in their own business.. cross checking apple , cross checking american it industry and even offering more competition to americans in space explorations.. putin all he cares is about his gas station and his military and he will never impress the west , with gas discounts. americans leads the world.. and putin complains about it.. then if he don’t like it.. perhaps he needs to stop complaining and start leading too ,in most prestigious business that american have ,that europe consider more popular and more important..

quote ” How is it that Turkey was allowed to keep part of Europe after WWI when they were losers? ”

Because the anglo powers always saw Turkey as a major asset against Russia.. this goes back even to the times of british empire.. during the russian empire times.. when ottoman empire was conquering southern europe and balkans.. an alliance of christian nations lead by Russia kicked the turks from europe.. and this happened through the entire history of russia.. britain and france aligned with turks against russia , orthodox russia ,since peter the great times ,saw islam and ottomans as a menace for them ,russia always dreamed with liberating constantinople and they nearly could do it when liberated bulgaria from ottoman occupation… but britain threatened russia with war if they invade turkey and capture istambul/constantinople city.. britsh even had forces there to stop russians advance ,so russia prefer to not start a bigger war,, and they did not invaded.. So this is why Anglopowers ,always used turkey as a spear against russia.. as long turkey exist.. they can control the gate of the black sea and blockade russia in case of a major war with nato and now they trying to block russia too in the caspian sea ,from easy access to iran.. because if nato US/israel allowed deploys military bases in azerbaijan and in turkmeninstan.. they can effectively break the supply line of iran.. in case of war . russia will have to fight all the muslims in central asia ,turkey , so this is what nato wants.. to completely encircle russia on its own borders.. with nato bases.. if russia allows turkey to setup bases in azerbaijan ,next ones will be in turkmenistan in the opposite side of caspian sea ,and eventually with some color revolutions magic ,get very hostile governments in control of every nation to the southern borders.. all the way to china borders.. they also plan to influence tatar turks in russia federation into demand its independence .. so eventually nato plans is to restart the ottoman empire ,but this time armed with nato weapons and encourage it to fight against russia. naturally such plans are doomed to work.because any muslim terrorist alliance in central asia ,in the so called anistan countries , will be facing not the less that the 2 most powerful armies in the world in a ground war. Russia and china.. and the muslims in central asia are not so numerous.. so russia and china can easily overrun the planes of central asia and stop the ottoman nato empire again.