That's quite funny, if not seriously tragic, that such a neo-con perspective is actually believed. I would wager that the bigger head-count of 'murder' of civilians, men, women, and children has been committed by the USA in the Middle East (covering several decades) rather than by Russia in its much more legitimate domestic sphere of influence. Let alone the complete lack of hegemony they display with but a handful of bases versus over 900 throughout the world by a completely imperialist US foreign policy. Russia's GDP is approximately the size of Italy and have more likely learned the economic lesson of their excessive military expenditures; something the good 'ol USSofA has yet to experience and is egging on Russia to revive.