Putin vs the NWO, page-12

Interesting Guardian article from Nov 1990, early days of the Russian Federation ...
The Russian bear will be back

Neal Ascherson


" ... A powerful, formidable Russian state will return to the centre of the stage in 10 years or maybe even less, and will resume its old top-table seat. It may be an ugly, unlikeable Russia. But it will be back. Russia, with more than 147 million people in the present Federation, is too large to fail. The threat that it might break up into independent warlord domains scattered across the 4,000 miles from Baltic to Pacific was averted in the years after the Soviet collapse. The Russian sense of national cohesion proved tough enough to survive dislocation which would shatter another country to fragments. And these millions, inhabiting one of the world's biggest reserves of natural and industrial resources, also form a colossal potential market.... "

Full Source:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/1999/nov/14/russia.guardiancolumnists
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