fry is better when you can still get crushed when the elephants fight.
Possibly the intertwining of more commercial interests that do not
coincide with great power blocs may be a factor reducing conflict (ducks to avoid bricks thrown his way).
> No one here has said anything like that. In fact, I'm guessing most
> think that Russia is a more or less capitalist country. The only
> virtue to a resurgent Russia - aside from the fact that it's made most
> Russians better off than they were during the 1990s, when they were
> run by Clinton, Harvard, and the IMF via Yeltsin - is that it offers a
> counterweight to U.S. imperial power. The U.S. had it easy in the
> 1990s. Now with Russia - not to mention China - it can't have its way
> anymore. Which is, on balance, a good thing.
>
> Doug
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