This is how a nation gives the finger to one of its neighbors. It would be funny but for one thing: world wars start in such ways.
I listened to an audio book some months ago entitled "Comrade J". The author, a former KGB officer who defected to the West in 2000, asserts that the Cold War is still a going concern to those who run the Russian government. These men, who came of age watching one communist blunder after another, are intelligent enough to realize that they must have a capitalist economy but still maintain centralized control of government and media, just like China. Today, Russia seems like a rusty giant. But haven't we, once again, become a sleeping giant?
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And when we awaken, the world will realize the same thing the japanese asserted during Pearl Harbor.
Posted by: Troy at August 19, 2008 02:17 PM