Give me power!

According to today's Kommersant, Medvedev is trying to put a law through the Federation Council which will enable him to solely make decisions on activities of the Russian army overseas, without consulting the council first (which is the current law, and is apparently inconvenient, because he has to go to them for every "small" matter). Effectively this will allow him to wage war with anyone, whenever he pleases. And guess what?! The Council is all for it! Federation Council speaker Sergei Mironov said that such a law is vital, because "...in case of threats against our citizens, Russia should have the right and opportunity to defend them." The Kremlin is justifying this law with "the need to quickly solve problems, such as that associated with the seizure of ships by pirates." Need I say more? Dark days are coming - that's my prophesy...