[ETL]

"the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the [20th] century" -Russian leader Vladimir Putin on the collapse of the Soviet Union...
"World democratic opinion has yet to realize the alarming implications of President Vladimir Putin's State of the Union speech on April 25, 2005, in which he said that the collapse of the Soviet Union represented the 'greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century.'
http://www.hooverdigest.org/053/beichman.html

[Nikas777]

To be honest. I don't fear a nuclear exchange with Russia as much as I do a nuclear jihadi or crazy North Korean attack.

The Russians are rational - the jihadis and North Koreans are kook burgers.