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Strategies & Market Trends : Booms, Busts, and Recoveries

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To: BubbaFred who wrote (51779)7/24/2004 7:51:18 PM
From: TobagoJack  Read Replies (1) of 74559
 
Intuitively obvious to the most casual of passing observers riding by on fast horse, that it is self-evident and foolproof apparent that I><<US requests, Iraq echoes, Russia refuses>> should happen as described.

Energy independent Russia, needing good relationship with France & Germany, having long border with China, with shrinking population, small GDP, exhausting Chechnya war, large Moslem population all around, a large/non-productive arsenal to maintain, and a US NMD system to counter, simply cannot be bothered to re-learn the lessons of Afghanistan I.

Stratfor = 0
BBR = 1

The fact that neocons were even thinking about asking Russia to chip in points out that they are possibly

(a) naive
(b) morons
(c) desperate
(d) hallucinating
(e) all of the above

Chugs, Jay
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