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windsclouds2030

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In Robert Gates's memoir "Duty," he describes how at the end of the Cold War [in the late 1991], Dick Cheney—then secretary of defense—wanted to dismantle not just the Soviet Union but Russia itself. No one in the US knows or cares about this, but I bet lots of people in the Russian government do.
In Robert Gates's memoir - DUTY, he describes how at the end of the Cold War, Dick Cheney, the...jpg
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Just as no one in America knows about Cheney and Russia, no one knows that Jimmy Carter gave Saddam Hussein a great light to invade Iran. But you better believe the Iranian government is aware of that.
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Putin addressed this very explicitly in his year end press conference last month. The key part is from around 28:30 to 29:30 here:

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He draws a comparison to the Wilson administration's concern about USSR's size in 1918 and says even today the US can't accept a Russia with a size of 146 million people.

So you're right [referring to Jon Schwarz @schwarz ]. Though it's completely ignored here, the Putin government is keenly aware of it.



A Teaching Associate Professor of Russian, with a research/policy interest in Russia, Central Asia, and foreign/second language education, at Oklahoma State University, Jonathan Z Ludwig posted:

"It's what we're going to have to do with China when the point/opportunity comes."

[referring to the opportunity to dismantle China into several smaller parts like the aspiration of some in the US Foreign Policy establishment to break up the Russian Federation.]
 

antiterror13

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This is surprising. I thought the ship that helped retrieve the sunken F-35 of the U.S. Navy was American. It turns out, the ship was Chinese built ship.

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Soon some politicians/reporters would say, there is a possibilities there are chips embedded onto the ship so China would be able to retrieve all tech specs and blueprint of F-35 :rolleyes:
 
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