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2008-11-26 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by SR-71 2008-11-26 18:55|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ] Top

#1 Seems the Russian experts don't really understand the US. If we didnt break up prior to WW2 it seems unlikely we would now. Wishful thinking or just intended for an internal Russian audience.

Posted by rjschwarz 2008-11-26 19:42|| 2008-11-26 19:42|| Front Page Top

#2 I predict one half of Russia will be speaking Chinese and the other half bowing to Mecca before any Russian fantasy come true.

Posted by ed 2008-11-26 19:47|| 2008-11-26 19:47|| Front Page Top

#3 You forget they get their 'info' from the MSM and Hollyweird. So, why shouldn't they come up with that impression. I recall the CIA was reading internal papers they got from the Soviet Union. They just didn't understand that the low and mid level bureaucrats were lying up the line telling the boss man what he wanted to hear. Soviet Union collapses and no one at the big intel op had any idea. Same here.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-11-26 20:35|| 2008-11-26 20:35|| Front Page Top

#4 To quote Mark Twain, "The rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated." Same for the U.S. of A. We have survived many crises in the past; the Civil War was a traumatic as anything in our history or Russian history and we survived. We survived the Great Depression. We survived WWII. We survived Korea and Viet Nam. We have survived many other crises. I guess we will survive a bit longer.

Posted by Lonzo Thomolet8930 2008-11-26 20:35|| 2008-11-26 20:35|| Front Page Top

#5 Our national debt is about 17% of GDP, Russia's is about 35%. Who's going to go broke first?

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-11-26 20:56|| 2008-11-26 20:56|| Front Page Top

#6 Nope. We is broke and getting broker.
US foreign debt is $14 trillion
US Public debt is $10.6 trillion.
Unfunded future federal obligations is another $50 trillion.

Posted by ed 2008-11-26 21:04|| 2008-11-26 21:04|| Front Page Top

#7 BTW, foreigners hold $3 trillion of US T-bills. Think they will be eager to roll over or buy more when when they need cash at home and at the same time US debt skyrockets several trillion $ in a year.

Posted by ed 2008-11-26 21:12|| 2008-11-26 21:12|| Front Page Top

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