Posted on 08/24/2008 11:00:04 AM PDT by Donald Rumsfeld Fan
Russia today has become more powerful relative to Europe than it has been since Napoleon, a situation that is all but certain to make the Europeans less willing than the United States to challenge Russian policies. Energy may accomplish for the Russians what the Soviet and Russian armies by themselves could not.
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About the only thing I can see the Russians did well was running gulags. There, they had some real expertise.
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