Russia

From an editorial written by Natan Sharansky (author of Bush's FP Bible, and someone I would consider to be living in right-wing la la land):

"the virus of freedom has spread among Russians for well over a decade. To reimpose Soviet-style tyranny in Russia would be virtually impossible."

Au Contraire. There is hardly a virus of freedom spreading. Freedom and Russians aren't going together like cookies and milk. From Foreign Affairs:

Enhancing personal freedoms and improving civil rights do not attract much support. When asked to choose between "freedom" and "order," 88 percent of respondents in Voronezh Province expressed preference for order, seemingly unaware that the two outcomes are not mutually exclusive and that in Western democracies they reinforce each other. Only 11 percent said they would be unwilling to surrender their freedoms of speech, press, or movement in exchange for stability. Twenty-nine percent, meanwhile, were quite prepared to give up their freedoms for nothing in return, because they attached no value to them (14). A survey conducted in the winter of 2003-4 by ROMIR Monitoring, a sociological research unit, found that 76 percent of Russians favor restoring censorship over the mass media (15).

The reemergence of a Russian autocracy is definitely something US must keep its eye on. Who knows what Putin is capable of?