[Arkinsaw]

It amazes me that Russia doesn't know what it is. It's as much a part of Western civilization as the US but has no clue. It thinks that it has a place in a Muslim dominated world, or a China dominated world, when in fact it has no such place.

If China becomes the up and coming world superpower then all those beautiful unexploited resources in the Russian west will finally get exploited. Just not by Russia.

If the Muslim world and its anarchy burst forth into flower then Russia will have a great and mighty Chechnya spread all alongst its exceptionally long southern underbelly. With Russia's dropping birth rate and the Muslim skyrocketing birth rate......what is the final result for Russia?

They think sucking up to Iran gives them a place in the heart of the Muslim countries to their south. It does not.

Cry for Christian Russia, because she does not know where she comes from, where she belongs, who her real family is, or where she is going.

[Lauretij2]

Some people say that the crescent that goes over the mideast, and the hammer (a cross shape) going over Europe have a symbolism in itself. I tend to agree. It meant that the communist new world would unite and rule over and eventually replace them into a new world order.

[stripes1776]

Cry for Christian Russia, because she does not know where she comes from, where she belongs, who her real family is, or where she is going.

Russia is a puzzle.

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

And it's being led by a man who seems to be under the impression that he's Peter the Great, when he's much closer to the late Leonid Brezhnev.