Okay, okay, we’ve slugged it out.
One time we almost went to war,
Their missiles, Cuban-based, about
One step from world-destruction’s door.
Years later autocratic rule
Collapsed and then democracy,
Or semblance from the Yeltsin school,
Took hold and gave us Putincy.
I.e., a demagogic face
On something short of liberty
That cautious citizens embrace
If life has better quality.
For some, no question they have more
Amenities compared with when
The apparatchiks ran the store
But now the Kremlin pries again.
It’s why the banking sector’s sunk
The economic life has crashed
And population base has shrunk,
So says Joe Biden unabashed.
Perhaps he’s right, but what’s the point,
While President Obama woos,
Of Russian noses out of joint?
World peace still begs our sharing views.
One Kremlin statesman hinting putsch,
Recalling White House legend, says
The question’s— as with Cheney-Bush—
Who runs the place, vice-pres or pres?
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