[proxy_user]

Say, maybe they should try a common currency....

[RC2]

I had a professor one time that said someday there will only be three or four leaders of the world. So....now we have EU, maybe another EU, the possible NAU (North American Union), UAE....who’s next? I wish this professor was still alive.

[Personal Responsibility]

The march toward the demise of the nation-state continues. It’s rather distressing when seeming nutcases like Alex Jones are shown to be right.

[nkycincinnatikid]

Note to Putin,
Been there done that,
Repeatedly Germany chooses to die rather than go that way.

[Greysard]

I don't see it as a USSR 2.0. Putin and everyone there know too much about USSR to clearly see that it was a hopeless attempt. Lenin didn't know it in 1917, Stalin didn't know it in 1930, but everyone and their dog knew it in 1990's. Nobody there wants another USSR. What they want is another China - where the economy is capitalist but the political control is centralized and minimally influenced by the rabble.

What I see it as, though, is a European Union clone without the common currency. (I think € will not last in EU either.) The reason for that is clear. WTO is not willing to admit Russia, and the process is completely out of control (or is under control but not how Russia would like it to be.) So Putin is essentially taking the ball and going home, to build his own team and to play on his own terms. With India and China in tow he just may be able to do it. If Brazil joins too then it would be the end of WTO.

Another important item here is that this new union of his will consist of young, aggressive economies. These economies produce a lot and consume a lot; there will be plenty of trade. I'm sure the intent is to make this union into something that is more important than the WTO. Countries that are left overboard are Europe and the USA/Canada; these are largely mature consumption economies, with a smattering of high technologies. These countries are also largely post-capitalist, where industry is unwelcome, investments are foolish, and social equality is all the rage. In other words, these are countries that one would do well by staying away from.

[Oztrich Boy]

We have always been at war with Eurasia

[the invisib1e hand]

Europe can be had for a song. This is your chance. Just step up and cosign, and you can run half the world.

[spetznaz]

Wow. Like a phoenix rising from the ashes. While I may not necessarily see a new Russia as necessarily ‘evil’ (in some ways Russia has been becoming more Christian and capitalist), I am all the same fully cognizant that this turn of events 100% DEFINITELY requires a strong US and a strong US president. Especially considering that the new ‘Eurasian Union’ will not have the inate problems that plagued the old Soviet Union (e.g. a socialist economy), and that at the same time an even bigger potential threat (China) is also a growing capitalist economy (with a communist political heart) and certain designs. If cloning works a certain chap called Ronald needs to be brought back, because the way the world is going it is looking more and more ‘interesting.’ A weaker US, a far stronger China, and now a Russia (that has been getting quite rich for the last decade) now calling for a ‘Eurasian Union.’