Quote Originally Posted by Sir C View Post
Ivan is skint though, and will be getting skinter as reliance on his gas diminshes.

Anyway, there's Poland and Czecho and so on to be gobbled into Fuhrerin Merkel's maw first, as a sort of appetiser.
True. At the end of the day, Russia is just remarkably shît at everything, isn't it? Autocracy was a failure, communism was a failure and now they've even failed at capitalist democracy. They are ultimately rubbish.