content: As a Canadian I agree, the old model of courting Tsarist Russia shouldn't have gone out with the Tsars.  The old model of Prussian-Russian & German-Russian relations (from the Treaty of Saint Petersburg (1762) to the end of the League of the Three Emperors) needs to resume in order to end the east vs west stand-off involving China and Russia versus Europe and America.    We cannot have this fight as the Middle East falls apart, it will ruin us.