Regimes like the one in Russia are stabilized by the fact that they have no ideology. There is really no ideological means to attack them.

A more stable relationship between Poland and Russia based on reconciliation might revive the reunification of Europe.

Russians clearly perceive America's global influence as being in irreversible decline and American society shattered by major political, economic and ideological crises.

The post-Cold War order in Europe is finished, with Vladimir Putin its executioner. Russia's invasion of Georgia only marked its passing. Russia has emerged as a born-again 19th-century power determined to challenge the intellectual, moral and institutional foundations of the order.

Bulgaria has been deindustrialized by interest groups who extracted state assets like oil states extract the oil in their ground.

America is a nation of immigrants, but it is also a nation of people who never emigrate. Notably, Americans living outside the United States are not called emigrants, but 'expats.'