[adorno]

Here's a hint from one of the links:

"Calling the collapse of the USSR the “greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century” is one of his most-quoted (and most misunderstood) historical judgments."

All you have to do is find it. ;)

[BobL]

“All you have to do is find it.”

I agree he said that, but when did he call to “to reconstitute the old USSR”?

The point is that he has no interest in doing so, and never said he did. For example, the last thing he wants, in my opinion, are managing the places that hate Russia, which includes Western Ukraine and the Baltics...and BOTH were part of the Soviet Union. Probably the same for the Central Asian Republicans.