[Rockitz]

This is no surprise to anyone who's been paying attention- only further confirmation that the faux-westernization of Russia was a grand hoax designed to extract capital from the west to rebuild their military and infrastructure.

[Paul Ross]

This is no surprise to anyone who's been paying attention- only further confirmation that the faux-westernization of Russia was a grand hoax designed to extract capital from the west to rebuild their military and infrastructure.

I think some in the Reagan and GHWB administrations were alert to the possibility that Anatoliy Golitsyn's warnings had validity. The wishful-thinking was that with the tidal wave of people wanting freedom...that the Bad Guys "lost control" of the situation. In retrospect, we should have leaned much, much harder on Boris Yeltsin to terminate the KGB. Not just rename it FSB.

[ravingnutter]

You are correct, but just to warn you, it is likely that you will be verbally attacked by some on here who don't agree with that concept...been there, done that. I've known for awhile that democracy in Russia was nothing more than a ruse and Putin is no friend. When (no "if" about it) China decides to go after Taiwan, they will assist China if the US intervenes, they've been training for it for years:

April 30, 2001 - Russian military forces intervened in a mock nuclear conflict between China and the United States over Taiwan during strategic exercises that included Russian preparations to use nuclear weapons on U.S. forces in Asia, The Washington Times has learned.

Russian forces help China in mock conflict

Feb 7, 2005 - Quietly, with almost no notice taken in the U.S. media, Russia and China have just stepped up their military cooperation to a level not seen in half a century since the end of the Korean War.

Washington Times

[spanalot]

"the faux-westernization of Russia was a grand hoax designed to extract capital from the west to rebuild their military and infrastructure."

BINGO!