You may be right about Russia. What can we do about it though? We're too busy re-engineering the Middle East.
Our debt to China and Saudi Arabia (trillions to each) doesn't help matters. We haven't paid a dime in taxes for all of this, just borrow borrow borrow, and our children's children will have to pay for it. It hasn't done our country any good at all, hasn't made us more secure, hasn't stemmed terrorism (rather it has played into their hands and created a recruiting machine), hasn't helped with the price of oil, and has over burdened our military to the point that we are not properly prepared for a real threat. We have effectively hamstrung ourselves. This is why you don't enter wars of choice. Bush was so eager to foist our troops upon the ME that he (and his admin) took his eye off the ball with what was going on in the rest of the world.
Hopefully this won't turn into anything big, but it does reveal our weakness to the world if there is a real threat lurking.
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