So, let me see if I understand. Russia has plenty of wheat and plenty of petroleum yet they cannot leverage that into a sustainable, peaceful coexistence with the free world? All the ...graphics aside, what it says is that they (read: Putin and his ilk) are not satisfied with what they have and want more; and they will get it even if they have to take it from someone else. Putin reminds me of the schoolyard lunch bully who pushes around the littler kids and steals their lunch. A real rectal orifice!

The reality is that Putin's Russia will die because no one wants wants what he has to offer. No one wants to exist under the thumb of a psycho ex-KGB tyrant in a sick and dying society. Thus, people will flee and feel good to be out of there, while others will fight to the death rather than become captive by him.