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Russia's Only Real Geostrategic Option - The Option That Would Give Russia A Realistic International Role And Also Maximize The Opportunity Of Transforming And Socially Modernizing Itself - Is Europe.

A Great Deal Of World Politics Is A Fundamental Struggle, But It Is Also A Struggle That Has To Be Waged Intelligently.

Like So Many Empires Before It, The Soviet Union Eventually Imploded And Fragmented, Falling Victim Not So Much To A Direct Military Defeat As To Disintegration Accelerated By Economic And Social Strains.

The Language Of The Internet Is English, And An Overwhelming Proportion Of The Global Computer Chatter Also Originates From America, Influencing The Content Of Global Conversation.

The Notion That Somehow Or Another They'll (iran) Put It In A Picnic Basket And Hand It To Some Terrorist Group Is Merely An Argument That May Be Convincing To Some People Who Don't Know Anything About Nuclear Weapons. I Don't Find That Argument Very Credible, I'm Not Sure That People Who Make It Even Believe In It. But It's A Good Argument To Make If You Have No Other Argument To Make. The Fact Of The Matter Is, Iran Has Been Around For 3000 Years, And That Is Not A Symptom Of A Suicidal Instinct.