There’s a well-known story about Russian President Vladimir Putin and a rat. As Putin tells it in his autobiography, as a child, he chased a rat around his family’s apartment building, eventually trapping it in a corner. The rat then lashed out, attacked the young Putin, and attempted to bite him.

This experience, in Putin’s words, taught him that if cornered, “you have to fight to the finish line in every fight” and “you need to assume that there is no retreat.”

…y yo sigo pensando: Estas escaramuzas infinitas en que se está metiendo el putinismo le puede costar muy caro como le costó a URSS la carrera armamentista con EEUU.

PD. El mes que viene vienen a Venezuela junto a Iran y China a maniobras militares. Ellos pueden jugar en Venezuela, Nicaragua, etc. pero el verdadero –y único– TO (Teatro de Operaciones) será siempre Cuba, demasiado cerca de Cayo Hueso y demasiado lejos de Moscú

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