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This should delay the collapse for a good fortnight!

7/21/2016

Even in Russia, Capitalism Sometimes Works

Russia needs a lot more real economy than this to offset its loss of oil/energy economy due to collapsed oil prices.

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Krauthammer mistakenly thinks NATO worth saving . . .

7/15/2016

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A First Step Toward Rebuilding NATO | Stock News & Stock Market Analysis - IBD

. . . it isn't.

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Russians pull a Soviet funny!!!

6/27/2016

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Putin’s Absurd New “Big Brother” Laws

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The destruction of the oil Tyrannies accelerates

6/25/2016

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Canada to Follow America’s Energy Lead

I can hardly wait till the responsible republics shift into overdrive.

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Dying Russia prostrates itself to dying China . . .

6/23/2016

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Troubled Russia Tries to Exploit Links to China

. . . like Tesla propping up SolarCity. Two weak companies hemorrhaging money, seeking solace from each other. Two weak nations hemorrhaging money seeking solace from each other.

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US versus Russia Arms Race: We Can't Win!

6/23/2016

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Putin’s Russia is a poor, drunk soccer hooligan - The Boston Globe

"Russia is not the country you think it is. Its economy is smaller than South Korea’s. Its people are poorer than Kazakhstan’s. It trails Finland in technology. And it has a smaller military budget than Saudi Arabia."

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Just invite them aboard to watch the exercises

6/17/2016

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U.S.–China Economic Relations Continue to Sour

Nothing will make them feel more inferior than actually having a helm side view of exactly what the US can do to them. If that triggered an arms race, or accelerates the South China Sea race, great. The way to beat China is the same way we beat Japan, in WWII, Germany in WWII, and the USSR in the Cold War, out industrialize them through arms race. We don't even have to engage in the race, we only need look like we are racing. Once exhausted, and impoverished, they will infarct.

This goes for Putin's Russia as well, engage, arms race them into poverty, reduce the government, allow it to recreate itself.

Lather, rinse, repeat as necessary until they come to grips with the reality of the End of History and shift to free markets, republican governance, limited government regulations, and reformed religions.

This might take a while!

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US/Russia relations nadir

6/15/2016

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Former Amb. McFaul: U.S.-Russia Relations at Lowest Point Since Cold War

Russia is in economic trouble, oil prices are slowly starving the Russian economy, and there are too few actual businesses to support the nation economically.

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Russia can't project power to the mailbox . . .

6/13/2016

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Russia's air force may be falling apart

. . . and the oil price collapse will strangle any attempts to right its military problems.

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Vladimir Putin, staring in the smash new hit, "The Pip that Squeaked!"

5/28/2016

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Putin Vows Retaliation Over US Missile Shield; Warns Poland, Romania Now In The "Cross Hairs"

"Recall that on May 12, in a dramatic development for the global nuclear balance of power, the United States launched its European missile defense system dubbed Aegis Ashore at a remote airbase in the town of Deveselu, Romania, almost a decade after Washington proposed protecting NATO from Iranian rockets and despite repeated Russian warnings that the West is threatening the peace in central Europe."

Squeak, squeak. Sorry pip, you will need to squeak up!

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This should delay the collapse for a good fortnight!

Krauthammer mistakenly thinks NATO worth saving . . .

Russians pull a Soviet funny!!!

The destruction of the oil Tyrannies accelerates

Dying Russia prostrates itself to dying China . . .

US versus Russia Arms Race: We Can't Win!

Just invite them aboard to watch the exercises

US/Russia relations nadir

Russia can't project power to the mailbox . . .

Vladimir Putin, staring in the smash new hit, "The Pip that Squeaked!"

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