[quote name='Sardonic' timestamp='1341691009' post='3006096']
Oh please, look at what he says on a regular basis. He's more past his prime than Ivan; a relic of the past, ignorant of contemporary politics, desperately trying to apply what they dimly remember from their halcyon days to modernity.
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Sometimes it takes a view from the past to realize the errors of the present. He isn't as far out of touch as you seem to think he is. At least he isn't someone that clings to power in an alliance that has long lost its glow.