[FPSPACE] Kremlin Inc (was: RE: NBC News on Safronov funeral, implications)

[Jens Kieffer-Olsen]

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 From: robot at esper.com [mailto:robot at esper.com] 
 Sent: Monday, March 12, 2007 5:33 PM

 [snip]

> 
> But I warn Russian decisionmakers, if any are lurking here in this
> open forum perchance, that in this revanchist game, if that's what it
> is, they are losing sight of two much closer and larger strategic,
> i.e. existential, threats. Namely, jihadist nuclear terrorism to
> which Moscow, more powerfully concentrated in that single city than
> ever before, is more vulnerable than anyone; and an unbelievably
> expanding Great China, which, with a sufeit of people and money,
> might decide that the gigantic grossly underutilized landmass to the
> north is just the thing to complete their picture.
> 
> Robert
> --
> Robert G Kennedy III, PE

 Your analysis seems a bit short of mentioning the EU, which
 for better or for worse is the immediate challenge to Russia.

 Should the battle for the Ukraine end up with that former CCP
 joining the EU, then either Russia must join too ( as envisaged
 by late French president de Gaulle ), or Russian economical and
 political independence will be adversely affected.

 If any US decisionmakers are lurking on Fpspace, it may be
 worthwhile warning them that a European Union stretching not
 only to the Urals but as far East as Kamchatka, is poised to
 become a very heavy partner to dance with.

 Combining Russian nuclear and space-faring expertise with 
 European economic strength and with a headcount more than
 twice that of the US, a Eurasian EU will be a rival even
 to Red China.

--
Jens Kieffer-Olsen
Slagelse, Denmark