Make Russia give up its nuclear arsenal

To hear the Department of State say it, what is happening in Eastern Europe is an armed conflict between the Ukrainian army and some mysteriously well-armed and well-trained “separatists” “apparently supported by Russia”. Indeed, the DoS goes as far as to conduct briefings on a little Ukrainian town of Debaltseve. President Obama is pondering whether to supply the Ukrainian army with anti-tank weapons… But even though that is “where the action appears to be”, these issues are minor.

America must realize that Vladimir Putin has used the events in Ukraine as a cover-up for a coup that turned Russia into a full-fledged fascist state, ready, psychologically and otherwise, to start the WWIII with the US and the EU, a war that would include a nuclear blackmail and perhaps even the use of tactical nuclear weapons. Now the most important national priority of the United States and the EU is defeating the Putin’s regime, and we need to concentrate on that. Russia, not Ukraine, is the issue.

Making Russia fully adhere to the Minsk demarcation line is a must, while Ukraine should be very strongly and generously supported, with the Ukrainian army trained and rearmed appropriately, regardless whether it irritates Russia or not. For now, Ukraine must stop concerning itself with Crimea and the Eastern territories occupied by Russia as this is a trap set up by Putin. Instead, Ukraine must concentrate on turning itself into an economic and military showcase.

Conversely, the betrayal and the fall of Ukraine and/or the Russian incursion into the Baltic States will make a nuclear blackmail a certainty and a limited nuclear war a distinct possibility.

Germany, France, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan — these countries owe the US a debt of gratitude for the post-WWII reconstruction. It is time to call it in: these countries should take the lead in helping Ukraine to become prosperous and militarily strong. Preferably, to such an extent that Belarus and Kazakhstan flip to our side and Russia is isolated.

The human rights situation in Russia today is horrific. (Addendum 1). Putin proved to be a real Hitler, and he won’t have any mercy and won’t become “reasonable”. Putin will not stop, regardless of his own preferences. If he stops, he will have to deal with the self-inflicted economic collapse. At this point, someone could say, “Great, let’s roll back the sanctions!” No, it is not about the sanctions: the entire Russian economy is based on theft, it is a bottomless pit, and is absolutely unsustainable. Look at the Russian parliament as an example: it does not have one real lawmaker, one real representative of the people, one real lawyer or an economist. It is a zoo. You cannot “reform it”. (Addendum 4).

Our relations with Ukraine are an important part of our policy (Addendum 7) as is our stance vis-à-vis the occupied territories, Crimea and the Eastern Ukraine, but again, this is NOT the main issue: the main issue is Russia.

It is very important to note that Putin’s political technologies have been extremely innovative and advanced (Addendum 5) and caught us completely off guard. We look at him in awe. Whether or not Putin will end up winning or losing is another matter: what is clear is that Putin has rewritten the textbooks on governance and on diplomacy. He has been two steps ahead of us.

We should also note that Putin, as a physical person, is not where the problem is. Unfortunately, the situation will NOT be resolved if we poison his coffee. Russia has no rules for succession, and a very dangerous internal infighting could erupt, as a result of which a guy no better than Putin will come to power. The problem is Russia itself, the 143.5 million individuals that are unaware of the win-win, refuse to be citizens, deny the need for rights and freedoms for themselves, and instead show hatred for democratic values and adoration (even if whipped into a frenzy by Putin’s media) for grandstanding and for the real hot war. For their own sake and for ours, this population needs to be taught a harsh economic and political lesson. Again. Russian population needs to be taught a lesson not because we are vengeful, but for their own sake.

The adequate response to Putin’s challenge is to wreck the Russian economy making Putin unable to sustain a war effort. Fortunately, this task is easy, provided we realize the need for it and do it.

Our goal is to make the power stratum in Russia face the looming riot of impoverished citizens. Our hope is that then they will agree to peace on our terms. In this case, peace would mean the end of Russia as a nuclear-armed power. We could leave Russian oligarchs their oil, but will take away their missiles. That is the only way for the world to avoid a war that may well turn nuclear.

This leaves out an option of all-out nuclear exchange, initiated by Russia. And today Russia can deal the US an annihilating blow. But I do not believe for a second that Putin is prepared or will be permitted by those around him to use strategic nuclear weapons. Today, Putin is not surrounded by ideological monsters, there are no Khmer Rouge in the Kremlin, at least not yet.

People around Putin are very wealthy, and they love their huge, gold-plated palaces. To a man, starting with Putin himself, they date women who are thirty years younger than them. The Putin’s consort, the Olympic champion in gymnastics Alina Kabayeva (aged 31, while Putin is 62) has three children by him, aged 6, 2, and 0. You do not create this set up to then cause the end of the world. This is the set up where you need to compensate by grandstanding for that small and flaccid thing you have, one that makes Alina chuckle and wonder how you could have knocked her up. A Russian joke has Alina say, “I asked him for Crème Nivea, and he got me Crimea”.

Russian rulers are bandits, and they love when their scaremongering and brazen deception work. We must meet them halfway, with a barstool in hand, and see to it that their teeth spill to the ground. That will make them crawl away, bleeding and moaning. More importantly, that would make them respect us. Her is a quote from Putin’s thesaurus: “Respect: this is what a person made toothless feels towards someone who knocked out his teeth.” This is the result we want.

To solve the Russia problem, we need to make it our absolute foreign policy priority. Forget the ISIS, Ebola, or even the Kardashians. The ISIS took a total of thirty people, clad in red for cheap effect, and cut their heads off to seem revolting since they can’t be important. These gory pranks do not even deserve to be on the news when we have a nuclear war looming. ISIS is not threatening our survival; Russia does.

To destroy the economy of Russia, we need to implement the measures listed in the Addendum 2. These measures need to stay in place until Russia gives up its nuclear weapons. We should also greatly accelerate our work on weapons that could wipe out or stop Russia’s nuclear threat. There is another reason why taking away Russian nuclear weapons should be our paramount policy goal: Russia may break up into several pieces and then we will have to deal with several nuclear powers, in a situation of a complete chaos. That is why the era of nuclear parity with Russia is over.

Today, Russia is a threat to very survival of our planet. This problem should be solved, once and for all, by creating Russia that is peaceful, has learned its lesson will, and does not have nuclear weapons. How will it all end up? Addendum 8.

Addendum 1 The situation in Russia today

After the disintegration of the Soviet Union, Russia underwent a faulty privatization that transferred property into the hands of the well-connected who became oligarchs. At the same time (and for the same reason) Russia failed to create a win-win-based system of laws that could create a true middle class, protect small businesses, and institutionalize the rights and freedoms of citizens. Without the legal system in place, free enterprise system cannot exist, and Russia has not created it. Russian foreign policy is also based on the lose-lose, and anyone who thinks that Russian foreign policy seeks to protect “Russian interests” is incompetent and blind to facts. Russian national interest is to be a part of NATO.

Without a win-win based legal system, a society has nowhere to learn the win-win, and cannot create the win-win based social fabric. This applies to the other countries as well, since no country in the world today has a legal system that is consciously and consistenly based on the win-win.

In today’s Russia, it is the lose-lose that is firmly institutionalized. Success is firmly associated with a person’s ability to be a criminal and a scoundrel. Putin understood this well, and build a system on a few simple principles:

· The state exists to destroy what remains of the rights of an individual citizen

· Every criminal should serve in the police, serve the police, or be in police custody.

· There could not be a fair, independent, and corruption-free verdict in any court

· There could be no elections that are not a mockery: elections serve a very important function of making citizens despondent and convincing them that they have no rights whatsoever

This created a system where 100% of political power belongs to the Putin personally, as he operates through a totally controllable Scoundrels Party. But it is also a system that has zero creative potential. So, when Putin got a two trillion dollar oil windfall, some of it trickled down to ordinary Russians who bought a lot of unproductive assets: real estate, cars, and food. None bought a machine tool to start a factory. Russia produces nothing. But it does generate a lot of frustration and hatred, and the Scoundrels Party efficiently selects those who hold nothing sacred. (Actually, Putin separated the Scoundrels Party into four indistinguishable parties openly financed from one source. These parties hold 100% of both Chambers of the Russian State Parliament).

This is a system that is indifferent to economic performance, but holds the set of the Scoundrel Principles in highest esteem.

This system is prone to unleashing a chain of events that are “incompatible with life”. When a Russian oligarch, Khodorkovsky, challenged Putin’s authority, Putin had to put him in jail and steal his company. But when an international court rendered a verdict directing Putin to repay Khodorkovsky $50B, Putin had a problem. And it is not the money, which is a small change for Putin. It is the principle, “Thieves do not cough up the loot” that Putin cannot violate, because the set of these principles is the foundation of his power. Since we talked about meeting Putin halfway with a barstool in hand, here is another principle that Putin holds sacred: “Don’t blink unless your teeth are spilled to the ground”. Well, we should help Putin blink.

When we talk about the palace coup that Putin has conducted, we should note a drastic change in Russia’s media climate. Independent and democratic media practically does not exist. Opposition media is unthinkable; in fact, there are laws in place to make it impossible. The state media is exceptionally virulent and openly fascist. It is anti-American, anti-western, anti-democratic, anti-gay, anti-Ukrainian beyond belief — and it is totally and strictly censored.

Addendum 2. Destroying the Russian economy

The President of the United States should appoint a Presidential Coordinator on Russian policy, and this position should be higher on the totem pole than that of the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Defense, or the Secretary of Commerce. The Coordinator should have sufficient staff and funding. This position should exist until Russia is (1) democratic and (2) non-nuclear, or (3) divided fairly between the EU, China, and Japan (with North Caucasus nations probably creating their own state or states).

All the US, EU, Australian, Japanese, South Korean, and Taiwanese citizens should be told to leave Russia until further notice. All nationals of these countries known, from the airline records or from surveillance, to have visited Russia after the announcement, should expect to be in big trouble. We do not like traitors, and we do not need a hostage drama either.

The price of oil should be no more than $20 a bbl (how to accomplish that — read the Addendum 3)

Russia should be switched off SWIFT and denied VISA and MASTERCARD services.

All Russian companies should be delisted and should not be able to operate in Western markets.

There should be personal sanctions against 1000 Russian citizens right away, and we should be adding 200 a month to this list, until our goal is accomplished. For example, in the Russian State Duma 90% of the Deputies should immediately be put on this list.

The following American and British companies should completely stop their operations in Russia: First, Procter & Gamble and Unilever. This will create in Russia desperate shortages of laundry detergent and toothpaste, and we very much want this to happen. Monsanto — seeds, pesticides; here goes the next year’s harvest. Schlumberger — oil drilling equipment. Microsoft and Cisco — crucial software. Boeing — engineering. You got the idea.

Russian economy must be hit across the board, at the same time, today, as hard as we can hit it, and we need to be able to keep the pressure on for the period of three years, which should be enough to see the total collapse that we want. And of course, we should announce that those who would try to put their goods on Russian shelves to substitute for the goods we have removed would not be able to operate in the US and Europe for ten years and that the owners and top executives of the offending firms will be severely inconvenienced when found within range.

A particularly grave offence would be any cooperation with the Russian military-industrial complex.

Any technological contract valued in excess of $100M with any Russian entity should be deemed as a US national security threat and non-Russian parties in these contracts should lose the ability to operate in the US and the EU for the period of ten years. In addition, those persons and entities who are parties to these contracts should be dealt with harshly, as the wartime rules dictate. We can sell to Russia medicine and medical equipment, cars, food, and luxury items. Whatever is needed to maintain life, but nothing that is needed to develop an industry.

The list of all Putin regime supporters, from the government employees and Putin’s party all the way to private citizens posting on Facebook should be kept so that these people could be unpleasantly surprised should they ask for a visa.

All Russian media and Russian reporters should be banned from any western media. We do not need lies and brazen propaganda that they produce.

The UN should cease to exist. It is a strong impediment to effective policymaking. Actually, the EU will discover that it made a huge mistake when it allowed itself to be influenced by the UN model. It is a model that allowed Greece to dictate the rest of the EU countries when and if Greece plans to pay its debts.

Any head of state or top official that meets with Putin should not be able to meet with any US official for a period of ten years.

This step is not necessary, but I like very much. The US should land the Marines in Cuba, without a warning, in five places simultaneously, after taking out the government, the military’s command and control, and the military airfields. The Marines should be instructed to hold their fire unless fired upon. Nobody will fight them. In the lead, there should be Spanish speakers and Cuban-Americans. We should be ready with the “Welcome to freedom” packages that include bars of soap and other things Cubans need. While the dancing and celebrations are going on, we should collect the Communist Party officials and the Secret police officials, brand their forehead with hot iron like we used to do with cattle before we correctly decided it was cruel, tax their earnings at 90% or put them to work cutting sugarcane.

Here, a very important explanation is in order. I am not cruel and hold human rights at the foundation of society. But the Communist ideology is a cult of death: it denies sanctity of human life, destroys creativity and achievement. That is why a “normal” punishment is not adequate for them.

I like this idea because it represents a brazen violation of a longstanding agreement that exists between the US and Russia. For a period of five years, Cubans should not be allowed to come to the US, but a plan for Cuban reconstruction and assistance should be ready. Ten years after the liberation, Cubans should be allowed to create parties and vote. You cannot be allowed to choose before you have a correct criterion of choice. Witness the huge mistake we made in Iraq and Afghanistan that caused us to lose both of those countries.

I know that there would be critics that would say that the Cuban invasion would worsen the US relations with Russia or even the US relations with Putin. Absolutely not, the opposite is true. We have been having a boxing match with Putin, where he hits us in the face and we respond by saying, “Excuse me, hope your fist was not hurt by my face”. Putin will only be relieved when we kick him in the balls, hard. Now, that is boxing!

We should also make a large step in the opposite direction. We should open at least 100,000 work visas in the US and the EU (Bulgaria, for example) for Russian citizens who have shown their strong opposition to Putin’s regime and are qualified to be gainfully employed. Computer programmers, engineers, doctors and nurses should be able to leave Russia and take their families with them unless they voiced their support for the Putin’s fascist regime. We want to save these people while bleeding Russia white.

Addendum 3 Getting the price of oil to $20 a bbl

First, we should bring back into the fold Venezuela as it has huge oil reserves. Addendum 6.

We should tell the Saudis, privately, that $20 a bbl is a top US priority for the next three years, and that should they fail to make it happen, all countries in the region will be constitutional monarchies or republics.

The electric car should rule the world. We need to reduce the consumption of oil dramatically, because we need to reduce its price.

We also need to dramatically reduce the dependence of Europe on the natural gas it receives from Russia. Energy efficiency and safe nuclear power, solar power when appropriate, should be the order of the day.

We should have high gas prices in the US and Canada, reflecting $120 a bbl so that consumers switch to electric cars and shale oil producers do not suffer: all we care about is that Russia gets for its oil $20 a bbl.

Addendum 4 What caused Putin to go mad?

Here is the story: Putin singlehandedly owns the entire Russia (and everyone who lives in it). Since there is no independent judiciary, Putin can take everything he wants, and that puts other owners in a precarious position. Witness the recent imprisonment of a Russian oligarch, Yevtuchenkov: obviously, he had to pay quite a “bail” for his release.

But when you own everything, you also own nothing, because everything gets stolen and nothing gets done. Indeed, you can define law as a relationship between owners; so, where there is only one owner, there is no law. Apparently, Putin became very frustrated by owning Russia: nothing gets done and everything gets stolen. Russia has an economy with zero creative potential. During Putin’s tenure, Russia got two trillion dollars in oil profits; and not a single new brand was created. Russians ate better because of this windfall and bought a lot of non-productive assets, such as real estate or cars. But as far as factories, none was built because factories need real owners (the exceptions are some foreign-owned plant such as Ford’s assembly line, but this is a different story since Ford does not think its factory is going to be stolen).

You see, Putin does not understand what does Obama do to scare Mark Zuckerberg into taking good care of Facebook. To us, it is obvious that since Zuckerberg OWNS his company, Zucherberg is motivated enough, and does not need Obama to motivate him. Why can’t Putin understand such an obvious thing? Allow me a little drum roll just to draw your attention: because thieves cannot afford to have a concept of ownership.

So, my theory is that Putin got frustrated to govern when everything collapses around him and decided to build a totalitarian, Stalinist model of governance. It is likely that Putin dreamed to be like Stalin: after all, his grandfather was Stalin’s cook. Also, every Russian dreams to be like Stalin, apparently it now a part of the Soviet genetic code.

But how would you do a Stalinist palace coup? How do you scare everyone into total submission? You need a war for that.

Now that Putin has caused Russia about a trillion dollars worth of damage, it is hard for him to pretend that nothing happened and go back to business as usual. Some fraction in his own group will eventually deal with Putin, and we should be ready to give these guys a chance. The removal of Putin should be rewarded.

Addendum 5 Putin’s innovative and advanced political technologies

Current war between Russia and Ukraine is absolutely amazing because it does not even have the defined sides, which is fine since the war is not happening as warring parties shake hands and trade, while being fully convinced they need to annihilate one another. Confused? You better be…

According to Russia, the enemy is a fascist-Jewish alliance forged by America. This is not a joke: Russians allege that the main “fascist” is a Jewish Ukrainian oligarch, igor Kolomoysky. Putin is clever, and he knows that mad allegations make the best allegations.

Since the the alliance members speak Russian and Ukrainian, it is “obvious” that they want to kill everyone who speaks Russian. Thus, the Chechens (who hate Russians and have just been through two horrific wars with them) must come to the aid of the Russian speakers immediately.

Who is opposing this alliance? Ukrainian miners from the South-East of Ukraine do. They cannot bear the (never issued) threat of having to speak Ukrainian to such an extent that they armed themselves with weapons that were not produced in Ukraine. And since there are so few of those miners, 90% of them are not miners nor are they Ukrainian. They came to Ukraine because they did not know they were being sent there, but since they are not there who cares? They took the Ukrainian tanks that have never been to Ukraine and the tank shells delivered as a humanitarian aid, but not to them, since they are not there. The fighting was ferocious, especially when the truce was on.

The Russian population is convinced that the Russian army is not in Ukraine, especially when they see some soldiers from the Buryat Republic (who are Asian and live two thousand miles away from Ukraine on the Russian-Chinese border). There are no Asians in Ukraine, it a Caucasian nation.

As far as Russian military casualties, or which there are many, the situation is clear. If parents deny their son was killed, they receive a military pension for their killed son. If parents go into mourning because their son was killed, they receive no military pension because their son was not killed but died from his wounds. Also, on Russian death certificate they write the cause of death, sometimes in detail as they are supposed to. But they do not state the place of death, which they might as well since the death did not occur. How can one die in Ukraine if one never was there?

Well, now you know why the Minsk negotiations lasted seventeen hours straight. By the same token, you now know how dangerous and cynical Putin is, which is why we cannot afford to leave him with nuclear weapons.

Now, let us look at it from the Ukrainian side.

Ukraine did not expect Russian attack and was absolutely not ready for war. Ukrainians had no desire to fight anyone, least of all, the Russians. They thought that their revolution was a strictly internal matter. From the Ukrainian point of view, there was absolutely no reason for war. Of course, in any revolution, there are always two sides — this is to be expected. After all, the Ukrainian revolution overthrew the sitting President who had his own power structure and who had stolen all the money that the country had.

Because of the objective correlation of forces, Ukraine cannot declare war on Russia as it would give Russia a pretext to use its full military might, including airpower and even tactical nuclear weapons.

Thus, Ukraine had to accept the fiction of “separatist rebels” (these are Russian supported gangsters with no legitimacy whatsoever). In fact, ninety percent of those fighting on the “separatist” side are Russian citizens of Russian-paid riff-raff, so the word “separatists” is a is not appropriate.

The Russian rebel contingent consists of ideological volunteers (with real, absolutely genuine, nazis among them, such as the Russian National Unity led by Barkashov and the Russian Orthodox Army), naïve victims of virulent Russian media coverage, criminals, who agreed to serve in order to avoid being charged, criminals who wanted to obtain a gun, and regular army units simply ordered to cross the border and fight.

90% of the equipment that the “separatists” have had been sent by Russia, across the border. Most of the political executives are Russian citizens. The entire campaign is conducted by the Deputy Commander of the Russian Land Forces, Lieutenant General Alexander Lentsov, who does not even hide his presence.

Ostensibly, Ukraine is NOT in war with Russia, and the countries maintain full diplomatic relations and even continue to trade (!). Thus, this is a war with unique characteristics in the history of the world. Indeed, as their armies fiercely fought, the leaders, under the watchful eyes of EU officials, were not just meeting (unprecedented enough), but actually shook hands.

Will Obama shake Putin’s hand after two missiles come from Russia and obliterate Boston and Chicago, which, according to smiling Putin would be “the work of some rogue Russian army lieutenant”? Well, apparently, Obama and Merkel are ready to do that: they certainly forced President Poroshenko do exactly (!) that.

Addendum 6 Taking Venezuela back into the fold

This is done by dropping a Special Forces team on President Maduro’s house, without any warning or anything, and by dropping over the Venezuelan Army bases leaflets that say that the National Guard salaries will be twice as much as they are getting and telling them where they could apply. Nobody will fight for Maduro: they have had enough of him. If the poor neighborhoods riot, say there are 100,000 jobs to be opened soon and let them register for that. Follow through with the promises: have good legal and economic models for Venezuela ready. Install a popular and adequate person as an interim President, rewrite all laws based on the win-win principle, so that there is no corruption or waste, create free market capitalism, and make sure that Venezuela pumps as much oil as it can. Fire 100% of people in the government, ban all Maduro loyalists from government jobs, and hire new ones, based on an aptitude test. People should not be voting for the period of ten years because their criteria have proven to be faulty, but they should see that a fair and just society is being built for them. They should see that they are being liberated, not exploited — this is a crucial point. The win-win principle allows brute force but only for the sake of the win-win.

Addendum 7 Our relations with Ukraine

In words, Ukraine should maintain its territorial integrity and never accept occupation of Crimea and the Eastern Territories. In practibe, Ukraine does not either.

Admittedly, there could have been a civilized discussion as to whom these territories should belong and what their status should be, but now this is not the point. The point is the manner in which Putin took them, and that makes it imperative that they be returned. It is the Falkland precedent: in the modern world you do not help yourself to what you think is yours. Otherwise, we can have ten wars going on simultaneously. Otherwise the entire world belongs to the US and China and both countries could easily prove that.

Former President of France Nicolas Sarkozy pronounced Crimea to be “Russian”, and the US should declare that because of this statement the US officials will never be able to meet or otherwise communicate with him, whatever may be his status.

Ukraine should not attempt to do anything the return these territories by force and should amend the citizenship law and change passports, so that the residents of the occupied territories lose their Ukrainian citizenship, unless they physically move to Ukraine to claim the new passport. All relations and trade with these territories should cease. Any ship (or airline) entering a Crimean airport or landing there should be severely sanctioned. These territories should become a huge burden on Russian economy and/or the areas of humanitarian catastrophe.

An all-out effort should be made to reform and support Ukraine. That does not mean that Ukraine should be financed and turned into a welfare state. On the contrary: Ukraine must be forced to turn itself into a functioning win-win state. Ukraine should become a showcase because the existence of America may actually be dependent on that. We must overthrow Putin’s regime, and Ukraine is our main argument. Ukraine must become very strong militarily, have a higher per capita income than Russia, and be a happy country, a win-win based country where democracy works.

This is an extensive task. All laws should be rewritten on the win-win basis. Judiciary should be 90% changed. Grassroots democracy, participation, feedback, internet democracy should be encouraged, but no solution that does not pass the win-win test should be permitted or implemented. The army should be completely reorganized and retrained. Ukraine should be given preferential treatment as far as creation of real jobs is concerned. Poland, Czech and Slovak republics, Hungary should be designated as “Ukraine integration locomotives”, in addition to the help that should be provided by Germany, France, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan as mentioned above.

Ukrainian military conflict veterans, especially those who sustained severe injuries and the families of the fallen soldiers should receive treatment that would be significantly better than that which Russia gives to its veterans.

Russia and Ukraine will one day be friends again. Eastern territories and the Crimea will one day be returned to Ukraine. But the paths they will travel to this reunification will be different and profoundly educational for all concerned.

What is the war in Ukraine about? It is about Russia. What is the Russian-Ukrainian was is about? It is about NATO’s safety. What is a conflict between Russia and US/EU is about? It is about Russian regime change but also about China. Chinese communists should be shown that the US/EU is strong and ready to defend their ideals and their interests.

Addendum 8.

And now my prediction as to how the present conflict is going to end. There will be a Conference between China, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, US and the EU, and it will declare:

· We are looking forward to the world where all six countries are in a lasting peace and cooperation, with no territorial claims against one another. And this is the world where:

· Taiwan is recognized by all parties as an independent state

· South Korea gets North Korea and Primorsky Krai of Russia

· Chukotka and Yakutia belong to the United States

· Sakhalin, Kurile Islands, Kamchatka, Magadan, Kabarovsk and Amur belong to Japan

· Eastern Siberia belongs to China

· Western Siberia and the territory west to of the Ural Mountains belong to Russia

· Russia, Ukraine and Belarus belong to the EU

· Japan and Korea are allowed to have nuclear weapons

When will this Conference take place? Within the next five years.