"Collectivization is the path of Marx and Lenin. To oppose collectivization is Trotskyism. Do you understand the meaning of this movement?"

I confess I do not. Further I am confident I have spoken as a fool, and proved I do not understand the differences between those three, as I have a vague grasp that they are mere facets of communism, faces on the sides of an edifice.

Since I clearly do not understand, I should not speak. I am not a Russian, and all I know of Russia is that revealed to me by entities I distrust, and particularly distrust what they can tell me about Russia.

I do have some grasp of geopolitics, and should confine my remarks to what I do understand. Regardless of the political platforms of governments and rebels, they have geopolitical interests utterly separate from political platforms and labels, and Russia does have means of profiting from US unrest.

In USG wargaming, civil unrest inevitably results in Russian, and many other government's, support for rebel forces. This was my original point, which I should have stuck with. You clearly know much more than I regarding Russia, and Russian history, which I dare not argue with you about if I want to remain reasonable.

Thanks!