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Taken from THE NEW YORKER, October 13, 2003, page 88:

"Post-Imperial Blues", by: David Remnick

(Quoting Alexei Arbatov, Deputy Chairman/Duma Defense Committee)

"We are still oriented toward a war against the West. This stems from Russian military strategy since the days of Peter the Great. To change this is like telling the astronomers to stop relying on Newton and Kepler."

page 89:

(Quoting Sergei Karaganov, former Yeltsin foreign policy advisor)

"Look, many in the Russian leadership resent the United States, but they have decided that it is better to adapt to American power and do the best they can, because the Middle East, Pakistan, and Iran - it can all go up in flames, in revolutions and wars. So we have to have someone to do the dirty job of keeping it all together. And that's the United States. And although you do stupid things, the United States is the only steamboat we can hitch ourselves to and go in the direction of modernity."

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