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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><BR>Actually I have been
speculating, since the recent nadir in US-European relations, that in the
medium term, the current NATO may give way to a Paris-Berlin-Moscow axis,
based on Russian oil, German economic might, and the French Bomb (course the
Russians have the Bomb too, but their technology is
primitive). <BR><BR><SPAN class=580315217-23022003><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>-Russian miltary technology is far from being primitive.
Actually the Russians have the means to deliver their</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2>-A-bombs where they want, a thing that the French donīt. And their
conventional hardware is as good as</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><SPAN
class=580315217-23022003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>-European
one.</FONT> </SPAN></DIV>
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