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wnylib

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19. If Russia as THE world power is Putin's dream,

Reply to RVN VET71 (Reply #8)

Fri Jan 1, 2021, 04:58 PM

Jan 2021

it will never happen. The next world power will be China.

Russia will fade. Putin is not building a world power nation. He is building up his criminal contacts who, like Trump, care only about themselves.

Even if the US declines in world status and power, the idealized US model that we claimed to represent but did not always live up to is what other nations will admire, not a nation of criminal oligarchs like Russia.

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I doubt if Putin envisions himself as world emperor. RVN VET71 Jan 2021 #8

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If Russia as THE world power is Putin's dream, wnylib Jan 2021 #19

You're right about China. RVN VET71 Jan 2021 #23

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