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In due time, it will blow up I suspect.

I think you're right. Either that, or Russia will cede territory in order to buy China off.

Who knows, though? China may decide that Russia is more useful to them alive than she is dead.

Man, the Slavs have really gotten a raw deal for the last 200 years or so, haven't they?

The Slavs have been dysfunctional most places. Granted Poland, The Czech Republic and Slovenia are moving on up now, and the C.R. did before WW II as well. The problem right now is that the Slavs just about everywhere have the highest abortion rates, and the lowest fertility rates, of anyplace on this planet. The fertility rate on average is about 1.5 (in a couple of Slav countries I recall it is about 1.3). And that is across the board, and across Orthodox and Catholic populations (and the Protestants in Moravia). And there has been little commentary about it. I know about it only because I have a considerable interest in fertility rates, and the Balkans, and thus it crossed my radar screen. In any event, the Slav population is headed at this point towards an implosion.