Putin’s plan for the reemergence of Russia as a hegemonic influence on world affairs might be characterized with Russia’s successful steps toward “energy super-power” status.
How would the emergence of LENR affect Putin’s actions as he realizes that Russia is sure to lose its previous energy hegemony in Europe? Will Putin take the loss of his dream for Russia and its ability to project power with good grace, or will the former KGB spy revert to old form and take matters into his own hands to remove the clear and present threat that he sees as catastrophic to Russia’s national interests as well as the interests of his cadre of criminal plutocrat functionaries? Remember what happened to Georgi Ivanov Markov http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgi_Markov And then there was Alexander Litvinenko… PR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr says that the death of Alexander Litvinenko, a strong critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, is the latest in a long line of suspicious deaths that may have been politically motivated. Paul Joyal, Russia expert, security consultant: A message has been communicated to anyone who wants to speak out against the Kremlin: “If you do, no matter whom you are, where you are, we will find you and we will silence you—in the most horrible way possible”. Paul Khlebnikov, an American business journalist, was gunned down. The first attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II took place on Wednesday, 13 May 1981, in St. Peter's Square at Vatican City. The Pope was shot and wounded by Mehmet Ali Ağca while he was entering the square. The Pope was struck four times, and suffered severe blood loss. Several theories exist concerning Mehmet Ali Ağca's assassination attempt. One, strongly advocated since the early 1980s by Michael Ledeen among others, is that the assassination attempt had originated from Moscow and that the KGB had instructed the Bulgarian and East German secret services to carry out the mission. The Bulgarian Secret Service was allegedly instructed by the KGB to assassinate the Pope because of his support of Poland's Solidarity movement, seeing it as one of the most significant threats to Soviet hegemony in Eastern Europe. If the NiH reactor more of a thread to Russian hegemony than the Pope was? You decide.
