The Technetronic Era Involves The Gradual Appearance

With Its Declining Population, With People Moving Out Of The Far East, With An Enormously Powerful China In The East, I Think The Real Destiny Of Russia Is To Become Closer To The West.

To Put It In A Terminology That Hearkens Back To The More Brutal Age Of Ancient Empires, The Three Grand Imperatives Of Imperial Geo-strategy Are To Prevent Collusion And Maintain Security Dependence Among The Vassals, To Keep Tributaries Pliant And Protected, And To Keep The Barbarians From Coming Together.

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.

It's Perfectly Natural To Desire More Troops When Engaged In A Military Operation Facing Serious Obstacles, And The More Troops You Have, Probably, The [lower The] Risk Of Causalities.

Sovereignty Is A Word That Is Used Often But It Has Really No Specific Meaning. Sovereignty Today Is Nominal. Any Number Of Countries That Are Sovereign Are Sovereign Only Nominally And Relatively.