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Russia is still hankering for the lost days when it was a superpower under the Soviet Union. They have to rethink their military strategy and come to terms with the fact they no longer are the equal of the United States in terms of sheer military power. Today Russia has worse enemies and America is the least on the minds of the men who rule in The Kremlin now.

Yes, but Putin has been fighting the Chechens for decades. He has to know they are a worse enemy than the US. Do you think that he still thinks we are even his enemy? I mean, do you think that he doesnt "get" that socialism is dead? I'm not sure he's the type that gives a darn about socialism, I think he's a pure capitalist in that he understands opportunism. (No offense to capitalism, believe me.)

Maybe he still knows we have active counter agents with Russia but so do they. Heck, we have them with out own allies, so I'm hard pressed to believe he thinks the US and capitalism is more of a threat to Russia (or should I say Putin) than the Islamo nuts that threaten every corridor of the present Russia and former Soviet Union.

I mean what was Yugoslavia all about? Milosovich trying to rid the former Yugoslavia of, again, a bunch of Muslim "rebels." You think maybe we got Milosovitch wrong? The jury in my mind is still out on that one. And what about the PKK, you think maybe Turkey knew what it was doing in blowing up those PKK villages and the US might have been a bit naive in protecting the TURKISH "kurds" (a Marxist-Leninist terrorist group of "kurdish" separatists, supported by Iran, Iraq, and Syria.)

But then this on my part is pure speculation and if so a view of history that has NOT yet been written and probably, except in the smallest of circles, not even been spoken. So I expect to get blasted for such an insensitive perspective on our 20th century victims who, in retrospect, might not have been so meek and unassuming after all. In short, maybe Milosovich was onto something after all (maybe that's why it's taken them 10 years to try him in the Hague. Maybe no one wants the world to hear what HE has to say.) But I digress.