Friday 17 August 2007

arm(s) wrestling ?

Is anyone surprised Vlad Putin has decided to flex his muscles ?
It seems enough is enough, the Russian strategic bombers are out of cold(war) storage and patroling the skies again, Russia, China and a few former soviet states are "practising" war games and Russia is upgrading its missile defense systems.
Are they affraid of the guy in the cave in Afghanistan ? I think not ! Perhaps they have seen enough of a certain country riding roughshod over anyone it feels like, forcing "democracy" (so long as their "friends" get elected) on whoever it feels like, and generally acting like the school playgound bully.
Or they could just ask their chinese friends for a favour, if (when?) China calls in its debt owed by the US the dollar collapses and with it the US economy. The (very inappropriately named) Federal Reserve (there IS NO RESERVE) seems to think the answer is to print more money, with nothing to back it up its a very risky strategy, remember the pictures of 1930's Germans taking their wages home in a wheelbarrow? The similarities are becoming frightening.
Hitler thought he could take on the Russians as well as the rest of the world, it appears dubbaya thinks so to!
lets hope not.

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