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To: TobagoJack who wrote (39816)	9/12/2008 1:33:22 AM
From: Rolla Coasta	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217619

Stratfor does acknowledge the lack of naval budget and that automatically admit themselves the staff writers are frightened by the prospect of Russian domination over in the North Pole sea lane. They don't explicitly say it but the fact is that the weakest part of the western military really is in naval warfare where nuclear submarines are hard to track by radar. So it is true that Russia doesn't need to use bombers to strike any western target, but just to show the protest against US deployment in Georgia.

To: TobagoJack who wrote (39816)	9/12/2008 6:17:39 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 217619

Elroy must be fuming! Mexican oligarch Buys a 6.4% Stake in Times Company. "Mr. Slim has a history of buying depressed assets he can later sell at a profit, and several analysts familiar with his investments say they see the purchase of the Times Company stock in that vein. In recent years, he has acquired stakes in several companies in the United States, where he has not been known to take a direct role. Those companies have included Saks, owner of the Saks Fifth Avenue stores; the tobacco company Altria; and the telecommunications company Global Crossing." nytimes.com

To: TobagoJack who wrote (39816)	9/12/2008 7:32:25 AM
From: dvdw©	Respond to of 217619

From stratfor piece; The problem is that the United States must now start gaming out what the Russians will be doing 10 or 20 years from now doubt that russia will succeed in dealing with its identity crisis, therefore gaming 20 years into the future about a capability of a state in regression, seems to be a waste of time. Attributing strength or weakness to some future identity depends on the actual course of that identity at any moment in time. Everything else is projection based on probabilities, which contain to much missing information.