[itsahoot]

I'm old enough to remember “We will bury you" When the truth was they were weakening economically and unable to feed their people.

Unfortunately they are rolling in dough, being the second largest oil producer after Saudi Arabia. What they are doing now is over control of a major pipeline into Europe.

There was an excellent one hour show on FOX last night, showing what Russia has become in a short time with oil money. Putin alone has amassed 40,000,000,000.00.

[mick]

Saw the show last night also.....and I heard that about Putin....my first thought was where does he stash that amount of loot?? And second, if this is true then they have an interest in the world not blowing up....ergo, what the hell is going on with these seemingly irrational moves that are slowing moving world public opinion against them ??

[mick]

another point on thatFOX show....I didn't notice any factories or other productive facilities being built....just monster real estate office buildings.....if/when oil price comes down that does not bode well for wealth creation