maybe snapping up Siberia if Putin doesn't watch his Easter borders too closely) needs to happen on an accelerated time table.
LOL! Someone's been reading
way too much Tom Clancy.
On the other two issues there's some potential for trouble, but I'd rate this one very,
very improbable. Especially as long as Mr. Putin pisses off America and its allies, and needs *ahem*
pragmatic Chinese buyers for his gas, oil etc. so badly. Why invade, when you can buy the good stuff at bargain prices? China and Russia are not really
friends by any means, but they need one another in their mutual antagonism to American global hegemony, which is all that they really have in common.