I'm planning on focusing on this war against the new Caliphate, because Russia is a dying power. Still, it seems intent on spending its last hours in a pleasant game of chess that I suspect it will win -- for an hour, while strength remains to hold what they are playing for. Of course, they might recover a bit of spirit if they win a few games of chess. But it's hard going to recover from a demographic death spiral such as they have entered.
As for the rules of the game, they are these -- the same rules of the Cold War:
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Ouch.
Well, Obama has said--and he has his international coalition echoing him--that a Russian humanitarian force, sort of like the 280 troop truck convoy (oops, that should be Red Cross-coordinated supply convoy that the Red Cross never heard of) that's en route, would look like an invasion to him.
Then he can sit in his 19th Hole Clubhouse with his paint-by-numbers kit and draw another red line.
Putin and Obama, together taking down Ukraine.
Eric Hines
All 1st world nations are losing demographics. The ones that aren't, are cheating via immigration, which is a faster spiral.
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