I wish to hell that I had profited from the occasions that I have had to learn the Russian language, which, I believe, is destined to be the Greek (what Greek was in the First Millennium) of the Third Millennium...

Putin, I think, has got it right. The West is due for a Carthaginian extinction in the next thousand years, while China, after a little nap, will go into orbit. They (the Chinese) might be the ones who, in endeavoring to suppress it, will invent Universal Encryption, thus ensuring that Fully Participatory Democracy is a Meritocracy.