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what is real about being afraid of russia? give me real evidence that russia is going to roll out the hammer-and-sickle'd tanks or launch nukes on our or other countries' doorstep. don't have any? that's because it's a fanciful fear based not on reality but on the hope for a condemned world. we had basically an entire century of sustained global conflict and every one of us (meaning nations) has lost out in some way. now that we are not in conflict, some poor saps still keep the spirit alive by imagining conflict and calling it "being real." that's some bullshit mofucka

so, who's going to be in charge? sustainability, the will to behave in accordance with reality rather than against it, proactive applications of skills and technology to afford all nations a chance to bring something to the world community. international commerce has been painting a picture of this since the age of discovery, cementing the livelihood of all nations together and producing a world in which no nation can truly fend for itself nor continue enhancing its way of life without the support of others: materials, machinery, expertise, labor, food, electronics, etc. we are finally recognizing this and understanding how efforts to circumvent the global partnership for personal gain are altogether counter-productive both in the short and long term. look at the war in iraq, afghanistan: these are abhorrent failures indicating the death of a paradigm.

and what business does the us dollar have in being a reserve currency? our whole system has been defunct from the beginning. we fudged it and it's not our place to dictate where the tide will turn

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