Originally Posted by oleg

I'd be glad to witness that you're right, and Danielpalos like fairy teller invents everything from his mind to play with abstract combinations.
But "in every joke there is a bit of truth", and it's very sad that ideas of that sort exist, however fantastic they were. I never heard the termin "confederation" applied to Russia - that's really new. But it's not a secret, that in perpetual attempts of so called 'contain' policy against competitors your government searches for the probable approaches of undermining stability in China and Russia. The most distinct case was with Ukraine - of course you are well informed about the "victory of Ukrainian democracy", the "escape of small proud nation from the grasp of imperial totalitarian Moscow" and all other stuff of that sort. Despite the issue was presented in all western media as the liberation of one nation from the yoke of another, the designers of the plan knew definitely that Kiev, the capital of today Ukraine is the former capital of ancient Russia - "Rus' of the Kiev", and associates with ancient roots of every Russian. Brzesinsky really thought, that the center of gravitation might leave the Moscow and displace back to Kiev, so that all Russia could dismiss Moscow and reassemble about her capital of old, the capital where the "democracy has just won and truth and power of people has just triumphed over the post-communist cleptocracy".
So the "confederation" theory is not so fleshless. I would add, that every federation always contains some way to be challenged by the confederation project. 800 000 Americans once payed with their lives to prove it.