Obama won’t be President forever.
We don’t have a huge indigenous Muslim population in our country and many more across our border.
We haven’t showed all our neighbors what treacherous, malignant shits we are like Putin has the Baltics , Poles, Rumanians etc.
Short term, yeah, we are stuck with Dear Leader.
Long term Russia is stuck with tens of millions of Muslims, terrible demographic problems and neighbors who hate them.
Not a pretty picture for Puty.
You make good points. However, although Russia has a large muslim population, approx. 11.7% currently, Russia ‘manages’ them more tightly than the U.S. and the West in general. An example is that the 2 million muslim residents & up to 2 million migrant workers in Moscow only have access to 4 mosques, with each mosque to accommodate 10,000 muslims only. Am on mobile & can’t send a direct link. But if you read wiki’s ‘Islam in Russia’ it’ll give you a pretty accurate pic of how the Russians keep a tight lid on their muslim population & neighbours. Tatars & Chechens are their biggest threats at present. Additionally, no doubt the Russians & the Chinese would have no qualms in using direct & brutal force should it become necessary.