MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin has offered his country’s assistance in investigating bombings in Boston that killed 3 and injured more than 140 people.

Putin said in a condolences note published on the Kremlin’s website Tuesday that the international community should come together to fight terrorism.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/16/boston-bombings-investigation-russia_n_3091560.html

Take Putin seriously.

The Colonel President has been squeezed westward by U.S. – Saudi – Sunni opposition in Syria, that old Russian client state the Kremlin seemed to have forgotten or neglected or sustained, lol, at the end of the Cold War Era.  In fact, Syria seemed to have been left to squat as it had been shaped by the Soviet experience.  Continuing state-to-state contracts and relationships probably seemed okey dokey all the way to the “Arab Spring.”

Today, Syria is not so “okey dokey” and it’s more Russia’s role than NATO’s to pick up the slack.  I think that’s why the politics look so upside-down from the American right side perspective: Obama has spun out some reverse psychology Over There, putting the U.S. in the old socialist’s position and casting the post-Soviet socialist and KGB-experienced scion as a defender of “domestic tranquility” and other slogans of the western faith.

Ah, the curse of living in “interesting times” — it is ours.