“re-establishing the Soviet Union.”
Nope. Wrong. They want to re-install the monarchy with Putin as the controller behind the scenes.
The Grand Duke was married in an Russian Orthodox church last year. Remarkable since Russian policy has been to eliminate churches under the communistic rule. Not to mention the Orthodox burial services of the last Czar and his family which was televised throughout Russia.
We are going to see czarist Russia again.
BTW, Russia was very expansionist under the Czars.
Nope. Wrong. They want to re-install the monarchy with Putin as the controller behind the scenes.
I just knew that I was going to get flak on that from some nitpicker!
I suppose that I should have said, "re-establishing some authoritarian state whose borders would roughly correspond to those of the former Soviet Union, with satellite states and buffer zones roughly corresponding to those of the former Warsaw Pact."
But no: I trusted that most FReepers would understand the gist of what I was saying.
My bad!
Regards,