Not nearly as knowledgeable nor informative about the regions as Jamo, but I have felt for the past few years that Russia is interested in restoring the old Soviet Union. About 3 years ago they started rebuilding their military with new and updated weapons, then that one person, Forgot who, made the statement that they don't care if they start another cold war. Now a few weeks ago they test fired a long range stealth missile that our outposts didn't pick up. I believe it has a range of over 7,000 miles. And of course will carry up to a 50 Megaton warhead. I am not posting this as pure fact, just from scraps of stuff I have seen in various military watch magazines and a few more or less reliable news sources. I hope that I am wrong but I think they now believe they can drive us into bankruptcy just as we did to them before. And they have a lot of
oil and other things of their own to survive without depending on other countries to help them.
Ron