This is great interview: the crisis in the region has Pakistan fingers written all over it. Pakistan is a conduit for the Saudi Wahhabi expansionism. Hence, it is not accident that Saudi Arabia has pledged 100M for disaster relieve to Pakistan. Only fools believe the bulk of this money will go to the poor affected by floods. Russia needs to exert more diplomatic pressure on Pakistan but also offer Pakistan some carrots. Pakistan is now sliding backward because the country’s elite has embraced role of servant of the U.S foreign interests. Pakistan has been an incubator of Islamic radicalism and subversive elements directed against the countries in the region since the Cold War period. Russia should have paid greater interests to Pakistan. However, the claim that Obama is facing the Gorbachev dilemma is not correct for the following reasons. First, unlike the Soviet Union, the United States has the capacity- diminishing capacity- nonetheless- at present to finance its imperial wars by just printing money. Second, the U.S is directing the will of whole of Europe-except the European Russia- as a result, the U.S uses European resources to finance its imperial wars. European Union member nations are current focused on solving economic problems but EU is also financing U.S imperial wars- by contributing troops and also by financing much of the humanitarian catastrophe created by the U.S military interventions. So, the U.S will continue with this path until credible multi-polar world order emerges- event which the U.S is trying to prevent by any means necessary.