Just picture it: one major, gas guzzling nation headed by a man financially knee-deep in an oil company. Specifically, a state-owned oil company of a former-enemy state whose chairman happens to be its president as well. Sound a little like monopoly? What about a lot frightening.

It will be reality if Mitt Romney swings the election here and Dmitry Medvedev does the same in Russia. Medvedev won the support of Vladimir Putin today and is likely to succeed the President in March of this year. Medvedev is the chairman of Gazprom, the 5 billion gas monolith in which Romney had 0,000 invested in 2006, according to his financial disclosures.

Sounds messy, doesn't it?