Bush’s slip (was it a slip?), when he spoke of ‘an effort underway to replace the government of Russia’ kind of sparks an idea –wonder what a Chinese or Indian would think of it –that the Kremlin might not have a moral right, now that both sides of the iron curtain have demonstrated against border & boundary, to own eleven time zones worth of the northern hemisphere, wherein lie the natural resources of the Eurasian land mass, which is occupied by billions of people on the other sides of those silly map lines, who are now being prepped to slave their lives away in return for little squirts of oil & gas, at the whim and pleasure of the Kremlin, which is after all merely a few cruel men in a gray building in a city far away.