51�Թ�

The United States will have a sphere of influence and we will cede Europe to Putin as his sphere of influence and feed perhaps Asia to China.

Its challenge appears to be to stay united, finally make good on funding its own defence, and avoid being drawn into the "sphere of influence" of any of the big powers.

They are now members of both the EU and Nato, but Putin still openly believes the Baltics belong back in Russia's sphere of influence.

Pushing many European nations further into Russia’s sphere of influence, making the entire continent vulnerable to the same kind of dark forces that have already corroded its weaker states from within?

But it will also be looking for ways to use the current political pendulum to swing the international community its way and within its sphere of influence.