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Communism -- epic fail.  Crony Capitalism -- almost epic fail.  State Capitalism -- miserable failure.

Humans appear to learn little from history as we commit the same mistakes over and over. 

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While I am not fearful of Russia, I believe she must be watched carefully.  They don't have the cash to make most of their threats come true. However, desperate leaders do monstrous things to stay in power.

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direstraits posted:

The Chinese are in the same leaky boat.  I saw a ceremony where the two leaders promised to be great allies. Rather reminded me of two cannibal kings sizing each other for the pot.

Since Russia needs high oil prices to survive, I suspect Russia would rather fan the Shia-Sunni fire in the Muslim oil producing states. I believe China would want to destroy the industrial output of it competitors, most likely by harassing shipping in the South China Sea. I wouldn't doubt that they might take another crack at Vietnam for practice.

All Russia has to sell are natural resources like oil, natural gas, chromium and such, plus second rate weapons.  The Iranians are good customers for the weapons. Due to the global economic slowdown, the natural resources aren't moving well. 

There is always a market for weapons,  As T. Jefferson said, Peace is that glorious moment in history where people pause to reload.  

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