>>>Russia stopped being a threat good 30 years ago. I don't see them being threat today unless they are seriosely provoked.
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>>30 years ago = 1978. I know the strength and passion of your opinions are much greater than your actual knowledge of history, but do you know when the USSR invaded Afghanistan?
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>>I do agree they are not a "threat" today - just a powerful nation with great resources and some dangerous weapons which is still trying to find its place in the world and trying to work out how it will govern itself.
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>>And this is very much the opinion of the US policy makers you seem to misunderstand so completely.
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>"just a powerful nation with great resources and some dangerous weapons which is still trying to find its place in the world and trying to work out how it will govern itself. "
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>You sure thats not the US Charles :-)
Actually, you are right. We are just a little further along the curve. I guess that's why I am not overly upset Russia hasn't completely nailed perfect democracy. They've been at it for less than 20 years and didn't build it on the same foundations we did, so all things considered ...
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
