Re: The writing is on the wall

On Aug 31, 8:22 pm, "nemo_outis" <a...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
And Russia is now "uncollapsing" - bigtime. A veritable Phoenix, risen
from the ashes.

Regards.

This is a temporary condition. Follow Russia's oil production curve.
EVERYTHING follows the production curve.

PPS I spent some time in Russia during the "hard times" (consulting for
the World Bank and EBRC - spit!) and was *extremely* impressed with the
educational level, skills, and competence of the intelligentsia and
professional classes there (the working classes may have been great, too,
but I had much less contact with them).

Funny how that is, isn't it?

Even the paid guide who took me on a tour of the Kremlin and such (a
*very* beautiful woman in her mid 30s) had immense knowledge and
education (not to mention style and grace). She was a PhD, too - forced
by the hard times to take work far beneath her skill level, educating
bumpkins like me. My one salvation is that, while I appreciated her
beauty and style as well as her erudition (only a dead man could be
oblivious to her charms), I did not embarrass us both by making unseemly
advances.

Nobody is more thankful for that than she.

(There were other ladies, who, while not up to her standards, were very
pretty and by no means unpolished or unsophisticated and who were far
more open to such overtures. Many Russian women - not all, but many -
are very beautiful and not the "eat cabbage, pull plow" stereotypical
matrons you might imagine. Nor were they "behind the curve" in sexual
skills.)

OhlikeIdon'tfkingknowthatalready.

Trav

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