[BobL]

I KNEW IT WAS COMING.

Eastern Europe has two choices: A somewhat dictatorial Russia, but nothing close to what the Soviet Union was - or being flooded with Muslims, with a likely civil war within a generation.

Hard to argue against the decision of the Eastern Europeans.

[DesertRhino]

There is no antidemocratic or oligarchal situation found in Russia that is not found in spades in the EU.