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To: TobagoJack who wrote (16280)	4/1/2007 10:03:25 PM
From: energyplay	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 218578

Russia will need to deal with all those former captured nations which have accounts they want settle with Russia. Notice how some of the countries - Poland, Chezk Republic - will go for anything, even George W Bush's proposals to make life difficult for Russia. Maybe China remembers when the Russians were planning to launch a nuclear attack on China. The Swedes remember all those Russian submarine probes of Swedish defenses. There is some talk of Sweden coordinating or joining with NATO. Is that due to George W being a charming fellow ? The Georgians, Armenians, Azerbijanins, etc. all love Russian intervention in their affairs, right ? Russia ran an Evil Empire called the USSR. Payback will go on for a generation.

To: TobagoJack who wrote (16280)	4/1/2007 10:20:56 PM
From: energyplay	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 218578

How the EU can destroy Russia : Just allow 1) Unlimited immigration of any ethnic Russian 18 to 40 with a college degree, with any minor childern. AND 2) Allow immigration of any literate ethnic Russian 18 to 30 without children or a criminal record. ****** The UK thought they would get about 13,000 people from Poland, they have about 300,000. in about 6 years. If the whole EU could get about 600,000 a year for about 10 years, the Russians would have turn out the lights ;-) ***** Let's look at some population data - Russian Population data .... People Russia Top of Page Population: 142,893,540 (July 2006 est.) Age structure 0-14 years: 14.2% (male 10,441,151/female 9,921,102) [ USA is 20.4% China 20.8% Brazil 25.8% ] 15-64 years: 71.3% (male 49,271,698/female 52,679,463) 65 years and over: 14.4% (male 6,500,814/female 14,079,312) (2006 est.) Median age: total: 38.4 years [ USA 36.5 Brazil 28.2 ] male: 35.2 years female: 41.3 years (2006 est.) Population growth rate: -0.37% (2006 est.) [ USA 0.8% China 0.59% Brazil 1.04% Poland -0.02% ] Birth rate: 9.95 births/1,000 population (2006 est.) Death rate: 14.65 deaths/1,000 population (2006 est.) Net migration rate: 1.03 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2006 est.) Sex ratio: at birth: 1.06 male(s)/female under 15 years: 1.05 male(s)/female 15-64 years: 0.94 male(s)/female 65 years and over: 0.46 male(s)/female total population: 0.86 male(s)/female (2006 est.) Infant mortality rate: total: 15.13 deaths/1,000 live births male: 17.43 deaths/1,000 live births female: 12.7 deaths/1,000 live births (2006 est.) Life expectancy at birth: total population: 67.08 years male: 60.45 years female: 74.1 years (2006 est.) Total fertility rate: 1.28 children born/woman (2006 est.) Nationality: noun: Russian(s) adjective: Russian Ethnic groups: Russian 79.8%, Tatar 3.8%, Ukrainian 2%, Bashkir 1.2%, Chuvash 1.1%, other or unspecified 12.1% (2002 census) Religions: Russian Orthodox 15-20%, Muslim 10-15%, other Christian 2% (2006 est.) note: estimates are of practicing worshipers; Russia has large populations of non-practicing believers and non-believers, a legacy of over seven decades of Soviet rule

To: TobagoJack who wrote (16280)	4/2/2007 6:31:30 PM
From: 8bits	Respond to of 218578

"<<no idea what "accounts" Russia, Venezuela, or Cuba would want to "settle" with "the US". Can you be more specific?>> Dissolution of USSR Interference in domestic politics in order to pilfer resources Bay of Oinks Pattern of behavior stuff" Bay of oinks predated the cultural revolution, Senor Castro has not been very kind to anyone objecting to his rule either. The pilfering of resources has actually been exceeded in many ways by local LATAM companies. United Fruit gave up most of it's holdings years ago. Many LATAM countries have been quite efficient of expropriating properties and assets from not only Norte Americanos but from rivals and other LATAM countries (Witness the most recent with Bolivia, Natural Gas, and Argentinian and Brazilian companies..)