The wisdom of Henry Kissinger

"Russia has always been an empire. Russia had always tried to dominate its surrounding states. Russia has never had separation of church and state, so that the church has really been a state institution. And all of these factors have produced a tremendous tendency toward a solitarianism and toward conquest. And when a nation behaves a certain way for 400 years, you have to assume that it has a certain proclivity in that direction."