OK, I can't compete w/your personal experience,maybe when he croaks if he doesn't manage to irradiate the world by then,Russia can be "worked with",I'm looking for some kind of solution here and it's difficult to deal w/someone sitting on all those nukes,I'm just concerned about a China/Russia alliance and would like Russia to tilt West,I know it's a corrupt country(obviously not on your personal level), it's hard to root out entrenched behavior. When Russia was under Yeltzin and free markets were tried ordinary Russians mostly got FKD, hard to believe that old Russian ladies in black shauls actually yearned for the days that they waited in a 1/2 mile long line for a 6 ounce meat ration ,leaving a vacuum for Vlad to step in and provide nostalgic comfort.