Originally Posted by texacali

I should have said a more intimate proximity to the EU through the former Soviet state.
The great game is not dead in our century, nor is the value of buffer states diminished by the recent peaceful co-existence between Europe and Asia.
It appears to me that a confederation or commonwealth of the old USSR has a good chance of occurring since the provinces and their administrators share the Russian language. If it can be sorted out to suit all concerned, the reborn Union may indeed become a power worthy of all respect from the West. I refer to the rights and freedom most of the West enjoys, not the system we live under.
It was appalling to see the disintegration of a coherent state into crony semi-capitalism and the re-introduction of dynastic dictators. I am waiting to see the dictatorship of the proletariat, after 90 years of promise.
A unified air defence on the Belarus border is worth how much?