Personal injury lawyers have enticed people for years with their TV commercials and ads on the walls of buses and trains telling us that if you have been wronged, you might be entitled to a big cash award or settlement.
Apparently the skills that are required to be a successful lawyer representing a class of wronged investors are not necessarily the same as those required to form sound on-on-one relationships.
Gently as America may have trodden, Russia's belief that it has been wronged by the West will not easily be argued away--not least because it comforts Russia to have someone else to blame for its problems.