Probably because this almost begs for accusations of shill-ing, worthless altercations via comments and generally degraded discussion. I had heard about the bo

Probably because this almost begs for accusations of shill-ing, worthless altercations via comments and generally degraded discussion. I had heard about the book before, but just found out that they printed 3 millions of them (which is a lot for whats probably mostly ideological drivel)... Distribution via semi-official channels is also concerning. This is generally an interesting datapoint. I used to believe that 2010s European policy (treating Russia as somewhat flawed democracy, and trying to positively influence via mutual trade) was generally a good idea that could've worked, but have realized that this was probably pretty doomed from the outset and almost negligiently naive from European leaders. 2014 was a wake-up call that Russian imperialism is alive and well, but it was conveniently ignored because Russian gas was such a nice pillar for EU electricity.