[GSlob]

Early 20s USSR did not seem like much a threat either. I was born and grew up there, before getting the ef out, so I claim some direct experience - and let me just say that I cannot take this opinion of yours seriously. The problem is not with the level of the threat [these levels vary with time] but with the threat nature - i.e. with civilizational nature of what Huntington calls "Orthodox civ". Even a small amount of plague bacilli could start an epidemics - the threat is not so much in the scale of outbreak [albeit a small one is easier to treat and contain] as in the virulence of yersinia pestis.

[Williams]

What the hell are you talking about? I admit I'm grouchy today so forgive me. Sweden could become a world power again too, Italy had an empire, Brittania ruled the waves. But Russia today simply is not the strategic threat it was as an International empire monolith that controlled half of Europe, funded Cuba and Vietnam, meddled in the Middle east and armed the Arabs, had plans to attack Western Europe with nukes, backed communist aggression in Africa, was the leader of international communism. The list is endless.

Keep an eye on Russia, but pretending it is like the USSR again is just that, pretending.

[eleni121]

civilizational nature of what Huntington calls "Orthodox civ". Even a small amount of plague bacilli could start an epidemics
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Cartoonish mumbo jumbo Huntington clash theory---Clinton's favorite historian. Apparently gobbled up by Muslims and lackadaisical lapdogs with an axe(s) to grind like you.