incompetence

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Russian foreign policy is so bad that they have managed to alienate even naturally pro-Russian government such as the Lukashenko post-Communist tyranny in Belarus and the supposedly pro-Russian Yushkhovich government in Ukraine. The Chinese look at them with obvious distrust (their recent project of an Asiatic-European bullet train network deliberately avoids Russia, actually choosing the politically unstable and physically earthquake-prone territories of Iran and Turkey). The Putin-Medvedev government is increasingly proving a complete failure.