[GretchenEE]

The only non sequitor I see in the above is Russia cozying up to China over the US withdrawal from the ABM treaty. It could happen, but I don't see Russia believing it to be a grand idea, as the FSU is gaining too much from its new friendship with the US and I don't see the big gain, long or short term, for them as the friends of the monsters in China. Putin has made a lot of choices to move away from China and toward the US since he took command.

[Matthew James]

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