timelets

This is a hypothetical. Maybe there exists an alternative universe where due to a Communist victory in Russia in 1996 the relationships between Russia and the US are better than in the present universe. I have no access to that universe. More importantly, the person whose twit we are discussing doesn't have any problem with the universe where Putin is in charge of Russia. In this context, a discussion about what if Putin was not in power in Russia in the alternative universe sounds irrelevant to me.