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In 1922 Vladimir Il'ich Lenin, head of the revolutionary Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, decided that several regions which for centuries had been Russian and under Russian rule were to be put, for reasons unknown, under the administration of the Soviet Socialist Republic of Ukraine. In 1954 a similar decision was taken with regards to autonomous republic of Crimea. The sudden disintegration of the Union in 1991 led to unruly phases in the newly created republics. Ethnic Russian people suddenly found themselves in territory that was no longer ruled by Moscow. In several of the new countries ethnic non-Russian majorities...

While Americans celebrate Thanksgiving, Putin in his own style, sent a gift to the Turkmen who killed his pilot: hell, fire and brimstone coming from all directions; land, air and sea.

Moscow - Russia's new intercontinental ballistic missile, which was test fired on Tuesday, can break through any missile shield, Itar-Tass news agency reported First Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov as saying. When asked about the launch, Ivanov said Russia's "new tactical and strategic complexes are able to overcome any existing or future missile defence system", Itar-Tass reported. "So from the point of view of defence and security Russians can feel safe," Ivanov said.

To paraphrase Ray Bradbury, something most ominous this way comes, and frankly I’m worried. Not since Russia tried to put missiles in Cuba have I seen an international crisis as potentially dangerous to America. World Communism has pushed a big pile of chips onto the table of the Great Game, and neither the mainstream media nor conservative commentators have caught the significance of what has happened. However, if one views political science like a jigsaw puzzle, then when a significant piece falls into place, it is relatively easy to see the Big Picture, in this case the Baran-Wallerstein theory (B-W),...