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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Asmodeus" data-source="post: 402773" data-attributes="member: 1084">Imagine you were the ruler of the USSR during Brezhnev's or Gorby's time. What would you do to keep your country viable and strong.What about having Russia/USSR integrating their southern Asian states more properly into the idea of Russia as well as not separating Ukraine from Russia to be a Republic itself. Imagine the USSR as mainly one large country(Russia), rather than a large conutry providing for many of its dependencies in regards to military strenght and aid.Allow the Eastern European states to remain semi-independent from Russia. IF they overthrow their governments, so be it. Cut your losses and lose a little prestige. Keep close with Chinafor mutual aid and protection. You have the economic power but they have unparalled manpower. If they ever decide to take your Siberia, kiss it goodbye unless you resort to nukes. Thaw ties with Europe and stop promoting Communism but make yourself as the banner gatherer for those opposed to the US like France(who you tradionally enjoy close ties with) while epanding influence in Asia which is a much more fertile ground for discontent against the US.Develop your economy. Plan something like the 5 year plans of old but without the ruthlessness of Stalin. Set aside significant sums of GDP to develop it over the next 15-20 years. Do something about your agriculture. Damn it, you have in Ukraine among the most fertile land in Europe andf you have a problem feeding the multitudes. Loosen up econimically to build up your base and do something like China is doing now. Or rather slowly imitate the Japanese economy.Remember you only need a few thousand nukes to blow your enemies away. Beyond that it starts to get redundant.What about US influence and interference. Keep them busy by bothering/helping those African countries under military dictatorships and are mad for wars. Never let Israel have any breathing space. Apply pressure through Syria/Iraq/Iran. American interest and lobbyist run too deep there for them to let Israel sink. Afghanistan is a country and has had ideas of nationalism, after your first initial forays and defeats, regroup and start from the North of the country. If anybody else wants to try to control the country, let them. Eventually the Mujahideen will start looknig on them as oppressors and start their civil war against them.Anyway I think I have gone on long enough about ways to keep Russia viable, now extrapolate till 2010 and you may get what you are looknig for. If I have time, I will post up what I think my version of Russia will look like in 2010.Enjoy</blockquote>

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