[Thunder90]

They are also waking up to hugging that grizzly bear to the north of the Panda. The Grizzly is wearing his Stalin coat again.

[CrawDaddyCA]

And in the series, Jeff predicted that the Russian Bear would, at first, be a neutral party (but supplying weapon's to America's enemies) in the struggle.

Hopefully Russia will see the error in their appeasement of terrorists, but a lot of suffering will take place between now and then.

[Paul Ross]

Note that the article thought Zoellick would toughen things up for the Chi-Comms...but now he leaves Foggy Bottom's #2 post, to go to Goldman Sachs...which is one of the most conflicted and invested in the PRC. They deploy the largest flottila of Heavy Duty lobbyists for unabashed, totally unprotected China Apologetics of any entity I have seen in the U.S...bar none. And that includes the lesser import lobby of the BigBox importers. I have reason to believe that a number of their folks may be right here trying to spin FR itself.