AHhhhhhhHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH....oh...oh God. Someone kill me.
Puns aside, this article makes me simultaneously giddy, intrigued, and terrified. And it's hilarious. Basically, Vladimir Putin, for all intents and purposes the badass ex-KGB de facto king of Russia, wants to unite ex-Soviet states into a big "Eurasian Union".
Totally...totally not like that other Union you're thinking of. Totally not. Don't even say it.
Actually, it seems like so far he just wants to build an EU-style confederation between states that removes barriers to trade and handles economic and currency policy. Okay, so far so good. But Putin so far has not been the kind of guy to stop at halfway...or to let things like "the Russian Constitution" or "democratic ideals" tell him what to do.
I'm just hoping that if he does keep consolidating power into a massive union to oppose the West, we end up throwing down in an awesome way, like the Space Race, not in some stupid way, like over nuclear weapons. And I hope it doesn't give the GOP more opportunity to erroneously call things socialist.
We could use a good old-fashioned face off with Russia. Finally, a war where we can point at the the other side and be like "Those guys. Definitely those guys." And know who and what our adversaries are. A classic war between gentlemen.
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