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Mikhail Gorbachev inherited a situation from an entrenched Stalinist gerontocracy  that was impossible to salvage. Economically, politically, and strategically, his well-intended policies of Glasnost and Perestroika were too little too late. 

WHEN THE KREMLIN BECAME A GERIATRIC INSTITUTION INHABITED BY HALF SENILE PARTY CORRUPTOCRATS , THE RESULTS WERE PREDICTABLE

NOW THE SAME IS TRUE OF THE DEMOCRAT PARTY IN THE WHITE HOUSE AND ON CAPITAL HILL

It seems that we are approaching the end game of sorts in Ukraine. Putin appears to have (almost) placed all his cards on the proverbial war table.