Nothing is going to save us from being doomed. We are destined to doom. We have explored space only to militarize it. We have more nukes on earth to destroy ourselves 50 times over. We are going to kill ourselves. Explore space for fun.

This is all brinkmanship. The Russians can never ever get back the old status of superpower that they held before the disintegration of the Soviet Union. What Russia is doing today is merely playing to the gallery of the rising Russian nationalists in...

was russia ever democratic? if so when was it? under yeltsin? i don't think so...