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To: RMF who wrote (454712)	2/6/2009 3:04:11 PM
From: michael97123	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1572561

The euro may not survive as a currency. Note the euro central bank yesterday did not lower rates but kept them at 2%. In my crystal ball US snaps out of this first and euroland stays weak. When oil bottoms, rusky economy will start to grow again as prices start to rise back to more normal and profitable levels. I was a russian studies guy in grad school and always tried to understand them. Even when communist they reacted more in relation to nationalism than one would imagine. Putin hated bush in the end because bush used him as a prop in the beginning. Bush kept moving nato east and seemed to be creating a wall around russia. Whether its the czar, stalin or putin, the russians react to that type of stuff. The russians are gruff and can be crude in how they message us but at the end of the day we have more common interests than things that separate us. You just cant treat Russia as a stepchild. View them as a regional power and we will all get along. And please lets not be wedded to star wars defenses that are put on their borders. There are other ways to contain iran.