George Will suggests that President Obama has missed the big picture with Russia. When I was a kid Russia had about the same population as the USA, well maybe that was the Soviet Union, at any rate, no longer. Russia decimated its own population with internal revolution, mass starvations by Stalin and then losing millions in WW II. But the latest trend is strictly internal. Russia is the accelerating to the downside population wise. Alcoholism, disease, a failed health care system, family dissolution, amidst the lack of hope is decimating the population growth.
This is of course dangerous. Leaders of shrinking countries are liable to do something dangerous to attempt a restoration to power.
Professor Elam 
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