Who said Russia's power is dwindling. The reason Putin is acting this way stems directly from their resurgent world influence. Do you think he would have dared carry off such an obviously Kremlin ordered attack in a major western power's capital 10 years ago? EA's not as right as he thinks....the UK may not rely on Russia for gas as much as they once did, but somebody's keeping Gasprom in business.
In the past 3 years, Putin went from 'I want to be friend to the West' to:
-Shutting off the Ukraine's gas supply for electing the wrong candidate
-Murdering a high profile target in London in a way that left little doubt he ordered it and arranged it
-Declared the US to be an enemy of Russia and that we are the equivalent of Nazi Germany....
Okay, you could get the 3rd one just by reading DailyKos.com, but you get my point.
Putin is signalling the world that in his mind, he's off his tether and we had better start treating him with a little more fear and respect. Notice you don't see Hu Jintao raising a ruckus about the Russians flooding Hainan with cadmium? Seems like Mr. Hu got the message loud and clear....
And if you still doubt just what Putin's ambitions are, let me leave you with this little question... where do you think the Iranian nuclear weapons program is coming from?
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