[durasell]

Not Bradbury -- it's from the Scottish play...

By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes.
Open, locks,
Whoever knocks!

[RightWhale]

Russia still has the nukes, and nukes could thoroughly mess up the country. Whoever starts will also be messed up.

[nightdriver]

"As for Kerry’s so-called allies, Socialist nations like France and Germany (along with Russia and China), armed Saddam and opposed removing him by force."

Who says Kerry isn't one of them, trying to bring down American capitalism?

Historically, he has been a whole lot friendlier to his subversive socialist buddies than he has to America.

[sure_fine]

pingsky

[Waterleak]

I suppose like China they are going to take over the World? If that happens then they will have to share the world with China? It's all very clear to me now.

[Jaysun]

We should have nuked them after Korea. Never ever trust the Russians.

[monday]

Darn. Misplaced my tinfoil hat. Can't make heads or tails of this conspiracy without it.;o)

[Californiajones]

Russia raped itself -- Stalin's slaughter of Kulaks and peasant farmers in the 30's. -- robbed itself -- through the Purge Trials that skimmed off the best and the brightest -- all in a quest to make the "perfect Soviet Man". But by 1960, Khruschev could not make enough bread within his own borders to feed the nation, and he doubted that the beets and potatoes he saw stretching to the Idaho horizon on his trip to the U.S. were even real!

The former USSR and now Russia had more natural resources than the US ever had. Through its own murderous and atheistic pursuit of the Communist dream, she rendered herself impotent to feed or clothe her own people. This national malfeasance is the undetermined quantity that most Americans don't get -- and it is what drives Russian foreign policy to this day. Russia and Putin are too proud to admit they squandered and destroyed their own natural resources through murderous socialism, and now, they reach out to our resource rich enemies in a ploy to keep the coverup going.

Russia is a third world nation with a decayed first class military. They've got to keep playing the old Cold War games because all they've got to barter is that failing military "protection" to our enemies.

[The Duke]

If some nefarious force wants to destroy the US then they had better plan on destroying China as well. The two countries move more in one another's direction every day.

If they destroy America, however, where will they retire to?

[DoctorMichael]

Agree-wholeheartedly Bump.

[neutrino]

Oh, well. Let's do more business with our dear good friend, China. After all, what are our freedoms compared with the chance to buy cheap trinkets at Wally World? (/bitter sarcasm)