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Americans play Monopoly, Russians chess
Spengler's top snark (IMHO) for this one
"The fact is that all Russian politicians are clever. The stupid ones are all dead. By contrast, America in its complacency promotes dullards. A deadly miscommunication arises from this asymmetry. The Russians cannot believe that the Americans are as stupid as they look.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2008-08-22
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=247926