Imperial-minded societies are stretched thin by geography. And, as was seen after the Treaty of Versailles (1919) with the transformation of Germany into the Nazi monster, it is dangerous to humiliate them. If one of these supposedly humiliated and amputated societies has been living in an eternal Orwellian 1984 for over a century, with total confusion about truth and lies, the danger is immense. We are talking about Russia. The largest country in the world, with the largest atomic arsenal.