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23. That's what I'm talking about.

As a Nation, the Russian (and it's "associated" satellite neighboring countries) peoples easily have the resource base to be the "America" of the Asian Continent. The only thing they have been lacking since the time of Peter the Great is a Government that gives a shit about them. Fix that, and they could be a force to be reckoned with, and a massively strong ally to the United States and a great benefit to the Global Order. What I never could figure out is why we never offered to help them in meaningful ways...if, for example, Russia is having a problem with mobsters running sex trafficking rings, why did we never offer them the skill-set and exp. of the New York City Office of the FBI's Organized Crime Task Force? While we were trying to buy their resource-base out from under them after the collapse, we SHOULD have been selling them John Deer tractors and American farming techniques, so no more bread lines in a part of the world that easily matches the agricultural potential of the Great Plains (the Ukrainian Steppes)...maybe we just aren't as good at world-wide problem-solving as we think we are....