By the way, the father of the bloke whom Putin recently appointed as a new Minister of Defense, Rem Belousov, wrote a treatise occupying 5 (five) thick volumes, about economic history of Russia in the 20th century and beyond. I suspect that no one among bureaucrats in corresponding Ukrainian agencies managed to produce even a single leaflet concerning connections between long-view economy and military strategy.

I find this fact pretty interesting in the sense that Andrei Belousov, likely, got some feeling of the mission incomplete from his father, and so he will try to fulfill the latter’s covenant.