Is macho posturing a big part of Russian culture?

Posturing? Heck no. It's the way of life. Most people, especially in the West, don't understand this, but men in every corner of the world will bend over backwards to be what their women want them to be. read more

Heck no. It’s the way of life. Most people, especially in the West, don’t understand this, but men in every corner of the world will bend over backwards to be what their women want them to be. read more

Yet if Russia bristles when Biden says it is “clinging to something in the [cold war] past,” then moving its submarines 200 miles off our coast is an excellent way to prove him and American hardliners right. Even if not provocative, the move smacks of desperation. After all, Russia’s navy is but a shell of its former self. read more