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One of the best, most realistic assessments of the Russia - Ukranian battle on the internet. The video is an hour in length but ten minutes will tell you how this is likely to end, what to expect from China, and how absolutely bad we (the U.S.) have botched this from the get-go. Our inept leaders are making themselves totally irrelevant -- and fast.

MOSCOW, May 6. (RIA Novosti) - U.S. and Russian approaches to the development of democracy on post-Soviet territory may not coincide, but that does not mean they should argue, says Dimitri Simes, an American political expert and president of the Nixon Center, in an interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda, a popular daily. In his opinion, when the U.S. president arrives in Moscow to attend the celebrations marking the end of WWII, the U.S. side will display its "great desire to achieve mutual understanding on a number of issues." The U.S. expert singles out Russian-U.S. interaction on the post-Soviet territory as a...