NOW...

The gifted war is over.

Won by CIS.

The religious war is starting.

Because you have to be in the CIS to be Christian.

That means they are all going to have to find new religions and work out the language problems.

We'll have to unify our currency for this period of working things out.

In the end you'll see it was neither of us. It was everyone else.

People pulling our strings for too long.

CUC = UK Pound

I anticipate this taking 40 years. Some other estimates are as high as 80 years.

We'll have to use commonwealth oil and ethanol.

Basically we're embargoing the rest of the world.

Sorry. This is the way it has to be.

Our language is Russian.

Although, most everyone does speak English.

We may all decide to be Orthodox Christians in all of this.

Just remember. We have an area the size of the USA that is welcome to settlement in Russia. It is mostly unpopulated.