[Brian S]

Putin is a very, very wise character.

KGB blood flows threw his veins and he is intent, and will succeed, in rebuilding Russia to its superpower status.

Of course it won't be next year, but over, perhaps ten years, with it's oil and mineral wealth and with the "west's" addiction to it...it shall be done.

I don't fear a Russian "super-state" any longer. Socialism is socialism and we are quite on our way to matching them within twenty years. :/

[Alberta's Child]

A historian once remarked that the single most important driving force in the 20th Century was that the U.S. spoke English, and that the single most important driving force in the 21st Century will be that the Russians are white.

I wish I could remember where I read that, but it seems awfully interesting, doesn't it?

[Destro]

A Russian Super state will not be looking to export world revolution. It will be a regional empire like it was pre Stalin.