#2 Again, "GREAT GAME" > Russia has CHINA, which may become either a GIANT NUKE-ARMED JAPAN = ECON SUPERPOWER or a GIANT NUKE-ARMED STARVING NORTH KOREA iff reforms in China don't work as intended; versus NUCLEARIZING RADICAL ISLAM [pan-Asia], which ironically Russia helped empower.
GEORGIAN CONFLICT > RUSSIA may covertly deniably be trying to contain/isolate FUTURE NUCLEAR IRAN-ISLAMISM, and in the altern clearing its GEOGRAPHICAL "BACK 40" AGZ THE FUTURE DAY IT MAY FAIL AGZ EITHER CHINA ANDOR NUCLEARIZED RADICAL ISLAM + NEEDS TO FORMALLY INTEGRATE WID NATO-EU IN ITS OWN SELF-DEFENSE??? |