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Who benefits by a resurrection of the Cold War? China? The Russian army?

About 20 years ago, during Gorby's "peaceful bear" posturing, the GRU (Soviet MI) shot a US liaison officer in East Germany. Kremlinologists went nuts trying to read between the lines on that one, and one theory was that Soviet general staff wasn't happy about "detente part two".

A few years before the USMLM officer was killed, while ex-KGB chief Andropov was trying to pass himself off as a peaceful admirer of Frank Sinatra and Johnny Walker Red, KAL 007 was shot down. That effectively ended the "peace offensive" back then. BTW: Andropov was Gorby's mentor.

But given all that, I'm ready to blame China. Or Putin. Or Barbara Streisand.

Anyone seen Hilary lately?

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But given all that, I'm ready to blame China. Or Putin. Or Barbara Streisand.

The prisoner Streisand has been removed to the headquarters building of the All-Russia Insurance Company, and there confessed her involvement in these crimes against the state, to her involvement with the criminal Trotsky in Mexico, and to detonating an explosive device at Tunguska.

Felix

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About 20 years ago, during Gorby's "peaceful bear" posturing, the GRU (Soviet MI) shot a US liaison officer in East Germany. Kremlinologists went nuts trying to read between the lines on that one, and one theory was that Soviet general staff wasn't happy about "detente part two".

A few years before the USMLM officer was killed, while ex-KGB chief Andropov was trying to pass himself off as a peaceful admirer of Frank Sinatra and Johnny Walker Red, KAL 007 was shot down. That effectively ended the "peace offensive" back then. BTW: Andropov was Gorby's mentor.

Not quite so long ago: desantnik, General, and Hero of the Soviet Union Pavel Sergeyevich Grachev was accused of personal involvement in major military corruption scandals that occurred during the withdrawal of the Soviet troops from East Germany, and were the focus of a series of articles published by investigative journalist Dmitry Kholodov, who was killed by a suitcase bomb.

Gen Grachev was the overreacher who began the shooting in Chechnya when in 1994 claimed he could clear those raghead insurgents out *with just two regiments of paratroopers.* Two years later, the Russian army lost that war and Grachev lost his job as Minister of Defence of the Russian Federation, in June of 1996.

I'm beginning to smell Pavel Sergeyevich....