PUTIN THE GREAT

All the Czars and all the Commissars combined could not advance the Russian Empire as much as Putin has without even having to fire a shot.  Turkey, which stopped the southern expansion of the Russian Empire, is now firmly within the Russian orbit, and Russia has become THE Player in the Middle East,  A warm-water port, the golden aim of the Tsars?  Putin not only has annexed Crimea but has a naval base in Syria as well as numerous former U.S. airbases.  He has decimated the most powerful and potent Foreign Service, theU.S. State Department, that the world had ever seen, all without having a single Russian casualty.