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    Quote Originally Posted by PJL View Post
    Incorrect ...I'm not the slightest bit confused. I think I'm just better informed than most Americans who refuse to see what staring them in the face. It's not just China that the US is railing against---it's all the countries that have been hamstrung by US foreign policy for a hundred years. It won't be long before India and Indonesia are also larger economies than the US.....and if Africa get's itself organized , they won't be far behind .
    No, your view of the world is Pollyannaish.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter1469 View Post
    No, your view of the world is Pollyannaish.
    I don't think so....it's more polyunsaturated than anything .

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    Quote Originally Posted by PJL View Post
    I don't think so....it's more polyunsaturated than anything .
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    Quote Originally Posted by PJL View Post
    So you think Russia is going to abandon its foreign policy agenda to sort Turkey out ?.......a strange view . I think Russia and Turkey have shown they can manage their differences to mutual satisfaction . They seem to have a constructive dialog happening . The only fly in the ointment for a global economic recovery is the US obsession with it's own disappearing unipolarity . The deepstate has got America by the balls.
    Here is a good article that discusses Russia's regional concerns.

    It’s no secret that President Vladimir Putin, taking pages from the playbooks of Russian leaders of yore, is trying to secure strategic depth. Much of that depth naturally lies in Eastern Europe and the Caucasus, which have been contested since at least the 16th century as Russia began to reclaim lands of Kievan Rus. Stalin continued to incorporate these territories before and after World War II, and in 1991, when the Soviet Union collapsed, they became vast borderlands from the Baltics to Central Asia comprising newly independent states.

    Russia’s latest attempts to recreate its buffer zone have created an arc of instability from Eastern Europe to the South Caucasus. Many of these states were already unstable, of course, and Russian revanchism has only made things worse. The question now is whether, when and how Russia will continue collecting territory.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter1469 View Post
    Here is a good article that discusses Russia's regional concerns.
    I think it's plain that Russia only has one concern - the fact that NATO keeps expanding East towards Russia , which goes directly against the agreement made between Gorbachev and Reagan , when the Soviet Union broke up . The real problem here is America's integrity , or lack of it.........these kind of stories are just propaganda , and only do more harm.

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    Quote Originally Posted by PJL View Post
    I think it's plain that Russia only has one concern - the fact that NATO keeps expanding East towards Russia , which goes directly against the agreement made between Gorbachev and Reagan , when the Soviet Union broke up . The real problem here is America's integrity , or lack of it.........these kind of stories are just propaganda , and only do more harm.
    I do not advocate for NATO to expand eastward.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter1469 View Post
    I do not advocate for NATO to expand eastward.
    It would a good move for whoever it is calling the shots for NATO , to realize and understand the error of their ways . War in that region would threaten my supply of Mediteranian Mackeral fillets from Poland .
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    Quote Originally Posted by PJL View Post
    It would a good move for whoever it is calling the shots for NATO , to realize and understand the error of their ways . War in that region would threaten my supply of Mediteranian Mackeral fillets from Poland .
    I am sure that is a top NATO priority.
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