Thank you for your thoughts - I agree. From what I can tell, modern eschatology teachers seem to all be quoting each other on this one, and that their view is based on little real fact. In fact, to suggest that we can take a Hebrew word and extrapolate it to mean one that sounds similar in English is downright silly.
With regard to the chapters in Ezekiel - you said that he speaks of the leader of the West. How do you determine that, when the text tells of his coming from the “far north”?
In Ezekiel’s day, he might have been referring to what became Greece or Turkey. I have read somethings that suggested just that. However, G-d could have certainly inspired Ezekiel to see a vision of what became Russia.