The problem is Russia is a country that has lost 300 years of its history, in terms of most of what was part of the Russian Empire in Europe, towards Europe, since Peter the Great, has been the territory that is no longer under Russian rule.

What political leaders decide, intelligence services tend to seek to justify.

The emergence of a unified Europe is one of the most revolutionary events of our time.

Clearly security without values is like a ship without a rudder. But values without security are like a rudder without a ship.

You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

The Russian empire under czars and commissars has been hard to deal with for other countries.