First published Strategic Culture Foundation

One of my most reliable guides to finding subjects to write about in these essays is to see what crimes the West is committing. It's a very good bet that Russia will be accused of them. If the US "accidentally" destroys an MSF hospital in Kunduz, then Russia must be routinely and intentionally bombing hospitals in Syria; if American officials pick the future prime minister of a foreign country, then Russia must be doing it more often and bigger; if Washington condemns reporters on dodgy evidence than Russians must do worse things. Likewise, Western deficiencies are minor at home but huge in Russia. (Admittedly it's getting harder to say that – especially with the West's dismal situation with COVID-19 but that doesn't stop the trying; vide "US takes the top spot on Bloomberg's COVID Resilience Ranking as vaccine rollout speeds up return to normal.") And so on: it's all projection to deflect your attention.

PROJECTION AND DEFLECTION: RUSSIA'S INFRASTRUCTURE

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