Authoritarianism is not pretending anymore to be a real alternative to democracy, but we can see many more authoritarian practices and styles basically being smuggled into democratic governments.
Regimes like the one in Russia are stabilized by the fact that they have no ideology. There is really no ideological means to attack them.
A more stable relationship between Poland and Russia based on reconciliation might revive the reunification of Europe.
The United States and Russia probably do not have common aims and dreams, but they have common worries: Both Washington and Moscow are concerned about the rise of China and are threatened by the rise of radical Islam.
America is militarily overstretched, politically polarized and financially indebted.
Russians clearly perceive America's global influence as being in irreversible decline and American society shattered by major political, economic and ideological crises.
