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Originally posted by Hercules1944:
Gotta laugh on that one. The US had an excellent chance in the 90's to secure better relations with Russia. They muffed it.

I would rather Corporate America had built business in Russia rather than China. Thing is, Russians would not work as cheap as the Chinese, so that would cut into their profit.

The average Russian only makes about $120 a month USD. Can not even tell you what the average Chinese makes, but, it's a hell of a lot less than that.

Riddle me this: Where does most of the money go in China? Bingo if you guessed to the military.

Had we made better friends with Russia, China would have been pretty much boxed in. Russia and China getting cozy is not good for the USA in the long haul. Just my take.

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Originally posted by Hercules1944:
Gotta laugh on that one. The US had an excellent chance in the 90's to secure better relations with Russia. They muffed it.

I would rather Corporate America had built business in Russia rather than China. Thing is, Russians would not work as cheap as the Chinese, so that would cut into their profit.

The average Russian only makes about $120 a month USD. Can not even tell you what the average Chinese makes, but, it's a hell of a lot less than that.

Riddle me this: Where does most of the money go in China? Bingo if you guessed to the military.

Had we made better friends with Russia, China would have been pretty much boxed in. Russia and China getting cozy is not good for the USA in the long haul. Just my take.

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Originally posted by Ol_Doc:

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Originally posted by Hercules1944:
Gotta laugh on that one. The US had an excellent chance in the 90's to secure better relations with Russia. They muffed it.

I would rather Corporate America had built business in Russia rather than China. Thing is, Russians would not work as cheap as the Chinese, so that would cut into their profit.

The average Russian only makes about $120 a month USD. Can not even tell you what the average Chinese makes, but, it's a hell of a lot less than that.

Riddle me this: Where does most of the money go in China? Bingo if you guessed to the military.

Had we made better friends with Russia, China would have been pretty much boxed in. Russia and China getting cozy is not good for the USA in the long haul. Just my take.

Great! With Russia and China getting cozy, Iraq and Iran getting cozy, Turkey and Iran getting cozy...with our "new diplomicy, why don't we just put the gun to our collective head and pull the trigger. At least it's not a slow death.