[Terry L Smith]

Dear Cronoz,

Thank you for the embellishment, of what I had perceived, and found correct.

So then, do you agree to the premise, that Mr. Putin is on the mission of enlarging Russia to a ‘what was’ state? There is only one choice, since the USSR cannot be put back together correctly, so Tsarist Russia was next.

[Cronos]

Yes, he wants a Russia like in 1825. Of course, this puts him at odds with Poles, Ukrainians, Chinese, Belarussians, Estonians, Finns, Latvians,Lithuanians, Georgians, Armenians, Kazakhi, Kirghiz, Uzbeks, Mongols, Chinese etc. etc.